2017

The thirteenth annual ISU QuarkNet Summer Institute was held July 9 - 13, 2018.  QuarkNet veterans Enrique Arce-Larreta of Salt Lake City, Utah, Jodie Hale and Geoffrey Williams of Pocatello, Idaho, Brent Mecham of St. George, Utah, Dr. Steven Millward of Grace, Idaho, Lafe Peavler of Ogden,…

  Virginia Tech’s relatively new Quarknet Center continued to grow and evolve in 2018. We were sad to see the departure of Nick Merrill, one of our Lead Teachers, who left the the area to pursue other opportunities.  However the resulting vacancy provided an opportunity for Rob…

Virtual QuarkNet is a group of teachers who are generally some distance from a research facility.  As a consequence, the group meets monthly by video conference (through CERN Vidyo) during the school year and at a physical site once each summer.  During the 2017-18 year there were three…

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Project GRAND uses proportional wire chamber stations to measure muons as they hit the ground.  Keeping the stations operational by troubleshooting various hardware and software issues was a major part of the summer work.  20 station huts were brought back online.  Upgrades to the…

When charged particles from outside Earth’s atmosphere reach Earth, the particles collide with the atoms in the atmosphere and separate into subatomic particles, such as muons. Muons can be detected with Cosmic Ray Detectors (CRDs). Muons can be used to detect the presence, shape, or thickness of…