University of Illinois at Chicago / Chicago State University Center

QuarkNet center for teachers in the Chicago area particularly interested in cosmic ray studies.

Contacts:

Mark Adams, Mentor
Edmundo Garcia, Mentor
Nate Unterman, Lead Teacher

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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

Links :

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. …

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.  …

Proposal for MINOS tunnel - muon rates versus distance from access shaft

Participaqnts from four high schools plan to meet Sunday Oct. 28, 2018 to develop a proposal to Fermilab to measure the rate of muons versus the distance from the access shaft.  Topics to be…

UIC Annual Report 2018

Our Center analyzed data from The 2017 Eclipse project.  Teachers and students presented their results at APPT in San Diego Jan. 2018. We also participated in a CMS Master Class at Glenbrook…