2015

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Annual Report 2015

Mentors: Tony Spadafora & Alex Kim Workshop Coordinator: Laurie Kerrigan   The LBNL Physics Division hosted its ninth “Physics In and Through Cosmology” workshop for QuarkNet Leadership teachers and high school students. The five day workshop from June 22 to June 26 was held at the Lawrence…

Cosmic Ray Detector Experiments LBL 2015

   Katherine Arackaparambil Jessica Bartling Camille Beards Joseph Bohan Violet Castle Matthew Chin Noel Chou Kayla Dempsey Reina Garay-Solis Marina Gee David Glover…

Will Atmospheric Moisture Interfere with Muon Flux Rates?

The pupose of this experiment is to determine if Moisture in the atmosphere will interfere with muon flux rates It is hypothesized that water will interact with the muons and or slow down the weaker muons before that can be collected and counted. There as the moisture in the atmosphere increases it…

Visualization of flow meter data collected at SURF future site of DUNE

The current project this summer is for the QuarkNet student to continue a data visualization web site that was started a summer ago by an intern that was working at the Sanford Underground Research Facility.  Data is collected by three underground weather stations using Campbell Scientific…