Summer Workshop 2015
July 13, 2015 - July 17, 2015
Attendees of the 2015 summer workshop included 4 teachers and 8 students from 5 high schools: Glenbrook North, Glenbrook South, Golder College Prep, Naperville Central, and Proviso West, as well as CSU and UIC faculty mentors. The workshop was held at the University of Illinois at Chicago from July 13 to July 17. e-Lab analysis activities with CLASA cosmic ray muon data explored the new TOF and Shower analysis modules. Students operated detectors and carried our calibrations and experiments measuring the speed of muons and the dependence of muons on detector separation. They collected data from five detectors systems simultaneously to form a large cosmic ray array: recording one event with 13 muons. Participants visited Fermilab: touring the D0 detector in the Tevatron; and used computers set up by the Education office to explore statistics and errors by measuring the mass of pennies. The students presented their Cosmic Ray results to each other during the last day of the workshop. Stipends are provided for summer workshop participants.