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QuarkNet Institute
Fermilab: 26 June-2 July 2005
To: All collaborators
From: Level-3 project managers
(Ken Cecire, Tom Jordan, Beth Marchant, Bob Peterson, Kris Whelan)
Date: 26 June 2005
Re: Data challenge
We have assembled and installed the prototype detector arrays in numerous locations. Before we can contine our work, we should probe the data that already exist to ensure that we can find interesting results.
We have also built a suite of ananlysis tools and an electonic logbook that you can access for your work. These tools will allow you to look in the data for three physics threads:
- Lifetime-use this tool to search for particle decays in the detector array. The package looks for decay candidates and creates aplot of events that meet your criteria.
- Shower-use this tool to look for time correlate event in onr or many detector locations. These events may be junk or the fingerprint of a high energy primary cosmic ray.
- Flux-use this tool to study the daily rain of cosmic ray particles. You can search for patterns that may exist in the rate of particle arrival at Earth's surface.
You will explore one or more of these topics in small teams of your choosing. Each team will compose at least one poster describing their work. Teams should consult withe each other during difficult times.
We have created project milestones to help guide your work. You should refer to these often, or at least when struggling with what to do next! We will visit your team during your milestone seminars during the week. We all look forward to learning about your discoveries and insights this Saturday at the all-hands conference.
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