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Quarknet Seminar

Alisa BredensteinerEndeavour Institute

Santa Cruz Institute of Particle PhysicsQuarknet

August 2010

What happens when you mix one exuberant teacher…

… a group of excited

educators…

… some really expensive equipment…

… and lots of tape?

Cosmic Ray Detection

What I have gained from my week at SCIPP

• A better understanding of Cosmic Rays, particle decay, Supersymmetry and the Multiverse!

• A great reminder of how incredibly huge I am compared to say a muon.

• A great reminder of how incredibly tiny I am compared to say a universe.

• A CRMD • The tools to bring ‘real physics’ and cutting

edge scientific discovery to my classroom

Classroom Application2nd and 3rd year Endeavour students • One week introduction and research on

Cosmic Rays and muon detection• 3 weeks for student developed experiments,

analysis, and poster presentation.Future aspirations• Collaborative projects (comparison studies,

shower studies, etc…) with other schools• Introductory Unit with 1st year students