2014

CMS Upgrade continued research looking for a detector which can tolerate the high levels of radiation found near the beam line.  Our line of research began with the idea of imbedding a optical fiber in a quartz tube.  The quartz tube is rad hard so it will tolerate the environment for long periods…

Our Boston QuarkNet Center held its usual round on school-year meetings and summer workshop in 2013-2014, as described below. Minutes from the Meeting on 11 December 2013 at Roxbury Latin School: On Wednesday December 11 we held our usual late fall meeting at Roxbury Latin School. Catherine…

The astrophysics group studied the unusual eclipsing variable star EE Cephei. Using a CCD and colored filters at the Morrison Observatory, Jordan Hall of Science, images of EE Cephei were obtained on four separate evenings. The CCD images were analyzed to obtain magnitudes in blue, infrared, visual…

   UC QuarkNet Annual Report Information September, 2014 The QuarkNet Associate Teacher Institute at the University of Cincinnati conducted its 11th annual workshop from Jun 21-25, 2012.  This year’s workshop included six teachers. The six associate teachers were from various schools in our tri-…

The SMU Particle Physics group sponsored its annual QuarkNet activities this summer for local high school physics teachers and students. The workshop, an event organized annually since 2001, was held the week of August 4-8, and there were summer-long research projects. This year there were 19…

The DVT group wrote a new version of our hour-long theater show this summer, incorporating a new theme to the presentation (scale of the universe from our daily life down to the subatomic level). New models, scripting, and presentation text were created, edited, and organized into a performance,…

Black Hills State University 2014 Annual Report   QuarkNet Center Name, number of years in the program Black Hills State University, Year 6   List of faculty/staff/student participants including the role each played Kara Keeter: BHSU Faculty, physics mentor Jaret Heise: Science Director, Sanford…

The main activity of the University of California at Riverside QuarkNet center in 2014 was its particiaption in International Masterclasses. Approximately 30 students participated: 12 from San Jacinto  High School and 18 from Riverside Preparatory Academy.  UCR participated in the ATLAS Z…

J. Ivy (Aberdeen Central High School) Steve Gabriel (Spearfish High School) Dr. Kara Keeter (Black Hills State University) The purpose of this study was to locate and isolate instances of coincidence between muon flux and major weather events over the last three to five years. We…

J. Ivy (Aberdeen High School), J. Wieland (Aberdeen High School), O. Smith (Spearfish High School) and Steve Gabriel (Spearfish High School)   The installation of the third flow meter at the 4850 level at the Sanford Underground Research Facility SURF on July 15, 2014, is an ongoing quest to see if…