2015
How long-baseline neutrino experiments, like MINOS, analyze detector data to extract neutrino oscillation parameters
2015 Summer QuarkNet MINOS Research Project Theodore Baker (Walnut Hills High School) Panos Manganaris (Anderson High School) Mentor Alex Sousa The purpose of my research this summer was to understand how long-baseline neutrino experiments, like MINOS, analyze detector data to extract neutrino…
Identifying signal and background events in decay channels of D*+
2015 Summer Quarknet LHCb Research Project Akshansh Gupta (Walnut Hills High School) Bridget Sypniewski (Mount Notre Dame High School) Mentor Mike Sokoloff The purpose of the LHCb work we did was to find signal regions and values from unedited, unclean information sets of different type of…
2015 FNAL-UC Abstract: Pulsar II and VIPRAM Chip Technology
Pulsar II and VIPRAM Chip Technology L. Craig- student(Fenwick High School) N. Tran-teacher(Fermilab) T. Liu- mentor(Fermilab) Pulsar II and VIPRAM Chips together can form a general purpose high speed pattern recognition system. As LHC upgrades to the HL-LHC, a silicon based tracking trigger…
2015 FNAL-UC Abstract: ARCONS Data Analysis
ARCONS Data Analysis T. Burchfield – student (Wheaton Academy) G. Dozier - student (Metea Valley High School) N. Forsberg – student - (Wheaton Academy) C. Stoughton – mentor (FermiLab) Our purpose was to analyze data and investigate data representation techniques for ARCONS, and to create…
2015 FNAL-UC Abstract: LArIAT Firmware Trigger Upgrades
LArIAT Firmware Trigger Upgrades J. Zhu – student (Naperville North High School) W. Flanagan – mentor (Fermilab) Liquid argon time-projection chambers (LArTPCs) are one of the most most promising detectors for neutrino physics, offering beautiful bubble-chamber resolution images of tracks in…
2015 FNAL-UC Abstract: QuarkNet Radio Telescope
QuarkNet Radio Telescope S. Qadir – student (Wheaton North) J. Johanik – student (Metea Valley) M. Mleczko – student (Wheaton Warrenville South) C. Stoughton – mentor (Fermilab) Our purpose during our term was to investigate the possibilities of creating and accurately operating a reasonably priced…
2015 Student Summer Research and Teacher Workshop-FNAL/UC Annual Report
QuarkNet Fermilab: University of Chicago Student Summer Research and Teacher Workshop Annual Report The Fermilab/University of Chicago QuarkNet Center sponsored its annual student summer research and teacher workshop for its 9th year. The summer research began June 22nd and went until July 31st.…
2015 Annual Report: The University of Iowa
Principal Investigator: Dr. Yasar Onel Associate Professors: Dr. Jane Nachman Technicians: Dr. Burak Bilki, Dr. James Wetzel Teacher\Mentors: Peter G. Bruecken, Michael Grannen and Moira Truesdell Students: Nick Arevelo, William Fawcett, Andrew Haffarnan, Bridget Quesnell, Sam Snow…
FIT SUMMER WORKSHOP
This year's workshop was centered around fixing and identifying equipment problems. Some paddles do not plateau. If we had a paddle that did not plateau, we set the rate count to 20-25 Hz by adjusting the voltage on the PDU. Once we constructed the equipment, the system gave error reports. We…