2016

Commissioning a Cosmic Ray Muon Detector for Cosmic Ray Radio Wave Research

Names: Brittany Crossen,  Ottawa High School, Ottawa, KS Ardrian Tidwell, Insight School of Kansas, Olathe, KS Research Teacher Mentor: James Deane, Ottawa High School, Ottawa, KS Research Mentor: Prof. Dave Besson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Purpose: We are building apparatus to help…

Further Development of Lightning Detection and Triggering for the TARA Experiment (2016)

  Names: Bennett Haase­-Divine, Lawrence Freestate High School Pierce Giffin, Shawnee Mission East High School Research Teacher Mentor: James Deane, Ottawa High School, Ottawa, KS Research Mentor: Prof. Dave Besson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Purpose:​ The purpose of our project was…

Quarked! Particle Physics Games

  Name:                 Robert R. Nickel, Blue Valley North High School, Leawood, KS Research Teacher Mentor:      James Deane, Ottawa High School, Ottawa, KS Research Mentors:                    Prof. Alice Bean, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS   Purpose: The goal of the Quarked project is to…

Purdue University West Lafayette QuarkNet Annual Report

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University of Cincinnati Combined Student abstracts form Summer Research Program

University of Cincinnati annual report

U Hawaii Student Research Abstracts - 2016

The Effect of Solar Activity on Galactic Cosmic Rays Laney Flanagan, Maui High School       Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) are high-energy atomic nuclei traveling near the speed of light that zoom around the universe and very often strike the Earth’s atmosphere. The subsequent collisions result in the…

SUNY at Buffalo QuarkNet Center, Mentors: Prof. Ia Iashvili and Prof. Avto Kharchilava

2016 Annual Report - Hawaii

The Hawaii QuarkNet center has a lots of activities and news to share this year. In November 14th, 2015, 13 students and 8 teachers participated at two days workshop about Cosmic Ray at University of Hawaii at Manoa where they were introduced to the QuarkNet activities and labs and to particle…

Virginia QuarkNet Center - Annual Report