Cosmic Ray Workshop Details, Aug 15-17, 2016
This is a three day workshop for high school teachers and students during which they receive training in the use of QuarkNet's cosmic ray muon detector (CRMD) and Cosmic eLab. The eLab provides an online environment in which students, working in a research group, experience the environment of scientific collaborations in a series of investigations into high-energy cosmic rays.
From start to finish this is a teacher-guided and student-led project. Each teacher could bring upto 4 students to join the program. This year we can support upto 6 teachers and 12 students.
During these 3 days will be dedicated to the Cosmic Ray Detector and e-Lab. These detectors are new to UW and are not made with CASA ( yellow scintillator) components. The e-Lab is where the cosmic data is uploaded and stored and from which data analysis will be performed on your collected data. This does not use LabView nor the UW generated analysis tools as was the case for the previous WALTA detectors. Rose Emanuel will lead you in the building and standing up the new detectors. You will also plateau ( optimize) the detector and use the data for analysis. You will even be able to construct an online poster!
Stipend support:
Each participant teacher can receive a stipend of $100/day and each participant student can receive a stipend of $64/day.
Apply Here: Teacher Application.html
Instruments prepared by participants:
Each group (two people) needs one laptop (MacOS preferred/Windows is fine)
Schedule: 9am~5pm
Location:
Parking: CENTRAL PLAZA GARAGE, LEVELS C2-C5 (note: The physics building is due south of the parking garage. The closest parking will be on the lowest level, C5, and will be near the exit ramp. Tell the attendant that you are in the QuarkNet Workshop.
Participants:
| School | Teacher | Student |
|---|---|---|
| Kelso High School | Rose Emanuel <astroemanuel@gmail.com> | TBC |
| Meadowdale High | Jim Landon <LandonJ@edmonds.wednet.edu> | TBC |
| Raisbeck Aviation High | Scott Mccomb <Scott.McComb@highlineschools.org> Nikhil Joshi <Nikhil.Joshi@highlineschools.org> |
TBC |
| Interlake High | | Prana Mittal <pranaym12@gmail.com> |
Instructors/Assistants:
| | Aug 17 | Aug 18 | Aug 19 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program | Cosmic Ray Muon Detector/eLab; | ||
| | | ||
| 9am | Prof. Jeff Wilson: Welcome/Intro | Cosmic eLab | Cosmic eLab: write poster |
| 10am | Rose Emanuel: CRMD overview | data-taking | group reports |
| 11am | Prof. Jeffrey Wilkes: galactic cosmic rays (see below) | ||
| 1pm-5pm | CRMD assembly, plateau, calibration | data taking & analysis | More reports; future plans |
| workshop done by 12pm |
Organizers/Contributors:
Mentor: Prof. R. Jeff Wilkes, Prof. Shih-Chieh HsuUW QuarkNet Staff: Mark R Adams <adams@fnal.gov>Technical Support: Steve StrauszUW QuarkNet Fellow: David Trapp <dtrapp@mac.com>
Workshop Documents and Links
Introduction to Cosmic Rays
Reference Materials
- Workshop preparation for metors and teachers [
doc] -
CRMD overview [
ppt] by Bob Peterson - Galactic and extra-galactic cosmic rays: ground based air shower experiments [
pdf] by Prof. Jeff Wilkes 2013 (see other below) - Cosmic Ray Muon Detector manual [pdf] by Chunyang Ding
- VIDEO: Ring of Truth- Phillip Morrison (PBS)- Morrison's 1987 PBS series, THE RING OF TRUTH, where in the episode "Mapping" he drives along a longitude line from border to border, demonstrating *pre-modern navigation* using Eratosthenes’ method to find latitudes, and Cassini’s tables of Jupiter’s moons to find longitude.
- Compton Cosmic Ray Studies with Electroscopes -Arthur H. Compton's organization of expeditions in the early 1930s to measure cosmic ray fluxes with uniform instrumentation (electroscopes) at many sites in the US and around the world. This article details his journeys.