University of Illinois at Chicago / Chicago State University Center
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on Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 15:55
Welcome to the UIC QuarkNet Center. Our website is found at http://physicsweb.phy.uic.edu/quarknet/
and our active dector sites are given in this google map:
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?hl=en&authuser=0&mid=zl9zMEZG24yo.kx2jOVu0S4ek
Description
QuarkNet center for teachers in the Chicago area particularly interested in cosmic ray studies.
MUSE Profiling Muon Flux in Fermilab's MINOS Tunnel
MUSE Profiling Muon Flux in Fermilab's MINOS Tunnel
MUSE CR Muon Rates versus Depth
MUSE Facilitating the High School Shielding Experiemnt
MUSE Background and 26 Degrees from Vertical Cosmic Rates
AAPT poster 4 of 4
AAPT poster 3 of 4
MUSE Collaboration Presentations at AAPT 2020 Winter Conference
Students and Teachers from the UIC Center MUSE collaboration presented their results at the AAPT conference, January, 2020, in Orlando. Links to four posters and five talks are below. Planning for the experiment began at the 2018 QuarkNet summer workshop. A proposal was submitted to Fermilab in Dec. 2018; calibration and design runs were performed in the five participating high schools. The experiment was approved in early winter 2019 and ran in the MINOS tunnel 105 underground from March to May, 2019.
UIC-CSU QuarkNet Annual Report
MUSE Collaboration data taking ends and analysis begins
MUSE collected data to measure the cosmic ray rate at MINOS from early April to May 26th. They studied the cosmic ray rate underground as a function of the distance from the accee shaft. A dozen students and five teachers from five schools designed and operated three detectors: two in the MINOS tunnel 105 m underground and one to monitor rates at the surface. The position of detectors in the tunnel were changed every weekend.