Projects

QuarkNet Projects 2013

This year's students worked on a total of eight projects. The following links lead to pages that include a brief summary of their work. These pages also include their presentations at the end of their research experience.

• Cosmic Ray Events and the MKID

  Alexandra (Wheaton Academy)

• The Mars Rover Mission

  Bishesh (Naperville North)

• Camera Characteristics of the Stereoscopic 3D Camera System for the Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP)

  Joe (Naperville North)

• Which Liquid Scintillation Counting Prep Technique Can We Count On?

  Katherine (Neuqua Valley)

• CMS Pixel Detector and Noise Calibration Testing

  Kiriakos "Kerry"(Northside College Prep, Chicago)

• High Performance Computing for Fast Tracking Trigger at LHC/CMS

  Naman (Naperville North)

• The Search for Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters

  Richard (Adlai E. Stevenson)

• A Route to Future of Network Management: Monitoring the US Lattice for Quantum Chromo Dynamics

  Warren (New Trier)