Summer Workshop 2006
July 26, 2006 - Aug 3, 2006
Teachers and students built a few detectors but main focus was the Dense Array - a collection of 20 counters (5 DAQ/PC setups) in SEL. Counters were assembled, calibrated and data taken simultaneously with all systems. Twenty students participated. The event display shows the directions of 16 simultaneously detected muons based on precise timing among the cosmic ray counters. After our Adler tour, students carried out simultaneous multi-site cosmic ray shower analyses on computers at Adler, using the e-Lab web tools at Fermi, on data uploaded from UIC QuarkNet sites. We also investigated problems with the GPS receiver on the roof of the planetarium and took in a sky show.
