2015
Syracuse University QuarkNet Summer 2015 Workshop Annual Report
Syracuse University QuarkNet mentors Steve Blusk and Mitch Soderberg organized a 4-day long workshop, held in the Physics Department from Monday, July 13 - Thursday, July 16. The workshop featured a combination of MasterClass activities and explorations with cosmic-ray detectors. This year…
NDQC CMS Data Group
Patrick Mooney (Trinity School), Jill Ziegler (Hamilton West HS), M. Gillen (LaLumiere School), N. Schrock (Bethany Christian) This summer the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center’s CMS Data Group continued its analysis of CMS data. In particular, we continued our analysis of 500K high Pt isolated muon…
NDQC Astrophysics Group
Aaron McNeely (Bremen High School), Dan Walsh (John Adams High School), K. Dyer (Adams High School), J. Isaacson (Adams High School), A. Reilly (St. Joseph's High School) During the summer of 2015, the Notre Dame QuarkNet Astrophysics group studied AG Pegasi, a symbiotic variable star. On four…
NDQC Biocomplexity
Mike Sinclair (Kalamazoo Math/Science Center), Helene Dauerty (Elkhart Central High School), C. Norman (Riley High School) Biocomplexity,also known as computational biomodeling – an interdisciplinary field which blends biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and mathematics – is a new area…
NDQC - The Use of Cosmic Ray Detectors and the Effect of Elevation on Total Muon Counts
Cosmic Ray Detectors Ben Mullins (Marian High School), Jeff Chorny (Lakeshore High School), K. Anderson (Bremen High School), C. Peterson (home school) When charged particles from outside Earth’s atmosphere reach Earth, the particles collide with the atoms found in Earth’s atmosphere and separate…
NDQC - Project GRAND Gamma Ray Astrophysics at Notre Dame
Cal Swartzendruber (Bethany Christian), Susan Sakimoto (Riley High School), H. Bradbury (New Buffalo High School), S. Grisoli (St. Joseph's High School) GRAND is an array of position sensitive proportional wire chambers (PWCs) located at 86.2 deg W, 41.7 deg N at an elevation of 220 m north of the…
Speed of a Muon
Mohit Bansil(North Farmington High School) & Alex Johnson(Woodhaven High School) Teacher Mentor: Mike Niedballa(Michigan Collegiate High School) Research Metor: Rob Harr(Wayne State University) Our experiment is designed to find the speed of a muon. We set up 4 stacked detectors and recorded…
Surface Area vs. Rate of Shower Events
Christopher Coulter(Woodhaven High School) and Nathaniel Lee(Roeper Upper School) Teacher Mentor: Mike Niedballa(Michigan Collegiate High School) Research Mentor: Robert Harr(Wayne State University) The purpose of this experiment was to determine the relationship between the rate of cosmic ray…
How Angle Affects Muon Flux
Pranathi Locula(Troy High School) and Sadia Farha(Frontier International Academy) Teacher Mentor: Mike Niedballa(Michigan Collegiate High School) Research Mentor: Rob Harr (Wayne State University) The purpose of our research is to determine the effect of changing the angle of the cosmic ray…