Summer Workshop 2016
July 25, 2016 - July 29, 2016
Attendees of the 2016 summer workshop held at Glenbrook North High School from July 25 to July 29 included 6 and 9 students from 4 high schools: Butler College Prep, Glenbrook North, Glenbrook South, and Rochelle Zell Jewish High School, as well as CSU and UIC faculty mentors. Activities included e-Lab analysis of cosmic ray muon data exploring the new TOF and Shower analysis modules, and training on cosmic ray detectors. Students operated detectors and carried out calibrations and experiments measuring the speed of muons, and the dependence of muon rates on detector separation. They also collected data from five detectors systems simultaneously to form a large cosmic ray array. Participants visited Fermilab: touring the D0 detector in the Tevatron; and using 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. A student group from GBN described their poster presented at AAPT: muon shower rates versus counter separation, with and without concrete overburden.