2016

Sudheshna Gullanki (Troy High School) and Tanner Allen (Paul K Cousino High School) Teacher Mentor: Mike Niedballa (Michigan Collegiate High SChool) Research Mentor: Gil Piz (Wayne State University)   The purpose of our research is to study and experiment the correlation between the angle of the…

Frank Vella (Western International High School) Rumana Begum (Hamtramck High School) Mike Niedballa (Michigan Collegiate High School) Dr. Gil Paz (Wayne State University) 1 July 2016             Our project was based on shower studies. The purpose of our project was to find the most efficient way…

Waves to Ones and Zeros:   Data Acquisition in Radio Astronomy    Ryan Thornton (Marmion Academy)  Dr. Christopher Stoughton (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)    Abstract    I designed the data recording and analysis of the QuarkNet Radio Telescope, a telescope  designed measure hydrogen’s…

Big Data Analytics for Identification of Gravitationally Lensed Quasars in the Dark Energy Survey  Pranav Sivakumar, Brian Nord, Liz Buckley-Geer   Abstract  We report results from an automated method to identify lensed quasars from the Dark Energy  Survey using a PSF-difference-based algorithm…

art ​  Visualization Using ParaView    Keshav Kapoor (Naperville Central High School)   ​Dr. Adam Lyon (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)    Abstract    The purpose of this project is to create a real time visualization of the data that is produced from  the ​art ​  event framework created by…

Muon Beam Storage Magnet B Field Shaping    George Ressinger (St. Charles North High School)   Dr. Brendan Kiburg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  Abstract The Muon G­2 Experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is an attempt to measure an anomaly in the magnetic moment of the Muon…

Design and Modeling of Dark Matter  Axion Detectors    Gabriel Rizzo (Oak Park and River Forest High School)   ​Dr. Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)    Abstract    Axions are a proposed cold dark matter particle. They are very light (10​­5 to 10​­3 ​eV) and…

Digital Design for Astrophysics  Detectors    Collin Bradford (Homeschool Student)   ​Dr. Chris Stoughton (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)    Abstract    Sensors in particle detectors​ often have to sample at a rate that far outpaces typical computers  today.  One of the solutions for this…

Quarknet Radio Telescope: The  mechanization to track celestial objects    Ben Hardin (Batavia High School)   ​ Dr. Adam Anderson (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)    Abstract    The purpose of this experiment is to get high school students around the Fermilab area  involved in science. The…

Creating a Runs Database Under MIDAS  and MySQL     Amira Malik   Dr. Mandy Rominsky     Abstract   At the Fermilab Test Beam facility, scientists test their equipment against the provided  test beams. Since the equipment needs to be accurately tested, the parameters of the beam  used must be…