Hawaii QuarkNet Annual Report 2021-2022

There are five cosmic ray detectors currently in Hawaii but

not all take data regularly.  About ten high school physics   

teachers actively participated before the pandemic.  Only one

event (CMS Masterclass on 12 March 2022) has been held since 2020.

Here is the agenda page that Shane Wood from QuarkNet and Tiffany Coke

from Punahou have pieced together for the Saturday, March 12

Masterclass:

https://quarknet.org/content/cms-masterclass-punahou-hs-march-12-2022

About 20 students from Punahou High School participated.  Three

QuarkNet teachers (Tiffany Coke, Charles Wade, Patrick Yim), Michael

Jones and Shane Wood participated in the lunchtime discussion.

Patrick Yim attended the Data Camp at Fermilab in July 2022.

     notes on Hawaii CRDs in 2022

  All CRDs have similar stacked geometry with about 1 m top-bottom

  separation.

BYU-Hawaii (6993) :  275 files with channels 1, 3, & 4 in 2020

   none since Dec 2020, new site & new GPS for detector in 2022

   new site became available in Sept 2022

   typical flux 372/m^2/min -- byuh6993mayaug2020

   Channel 2 has been dead for a long time.

Kamehameha (6948) :  39 files mostly channels 2, 3, & 4 in 2019

  none since Sept 2019

  unstable channels

  Peter Grach died in Dec. 2021

  new teacher Benjamin Mountz will try to revive detector

Maui (6231) : 84 files in 2021,  none since April 2021

  channels 1 & 4 only, channel 4 often unstable

  student Cyrus Salahub restored two channels in 2020-1

  new group of students in 2022

   John Andrei Balanay, Raiden Ravida, Ano Motulalo   

   Balanay sent photos of DAQ on 3 Feb. 2022

   blue lights on DAQ not blinking

   sent notes to Maui students on 4 Feb. 2022

   Balanay reports on 4 May 2022 that DAQ is not working

Punahou (6432) :  119 files in 2022, 272 in 2021

  typical flux 305/m^2/min since 28 Feb. -- punahou6432febmar2022

  sudden drop in flux to 200/m^2/min and chan 3 singles rate in Feb 2022

  data taking with channels 1,2, & 4 since 28 Feb 2022

UH Windward (6100) : 6 files in 2022, 236 in 2021

  typical flux 395/m^2/min in 28 May to 21 Aug 2021 -- wcc6100mayaug2021

  upload problem in March 2022 for data from 5 Dec 2021 to 11 March 2022

  data taking resumed in July 2022

posters in May 2018

  51 by students of Garrett Nakamatsu of Kamehameha HS

  21 by students of Peter Grach of Kamehameha HS

posters in March-May 2019, none since

  19 by students of Patrick Yim of Leilehua HS

 

files since 2015

                 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

  BYU-Hawaii      185   55  132  294   68  275

  Kamehameha            73  222  230   39

  Maui             30   23  132   74   76   78   84

  Punahou         113  237  262  283  208  192  246  119

  Windward        178  205  270  235  167  358  236    6

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