Noam L.V.

5.6.24

Turns out Joe was wrong and was measuring the wrong thing. The detectors are set up and we are going to begin plateuing them now. All data from that will be in the doc from the last journal entry.

4.30.24

Im finally linking my google doc with the steps we took to plateau the detectors. I called Joe today to work on plateauing but he noticed something wrong with detector 2 and is working on it. It seems to be registering the wrong voltage so he is looking at it and will get back to us.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LSTy4-UQ2khncAGDip951i0Qac_HslncCaEY-oT6mhE/edit?usp=sharing

4.29.24

My last update didn’t load so I’m writing it here. The issue with the DAQ board was the barometer so we disconnected it and sent it to Quarknet in Illinois to get fixed. It got sent back after two weeks and we just installed it. Should be working well but we are going to plataue them tomorrow. It will probably take a week or two. We also bought new stepper hats and are in the process of setting them up with the code Ezri wrote. Once that is done I will have to CAD something to hold it together. Poster session was good and I ended up getting a lot of cool space posters. I am going to try and buy a hydraulic press to experiment with and eventually use for superconductor.

1.29.24

Haven’t uploaded it in a while but we are plateauing the detectors. We are having some issues with either the barometer or the power supply but detailed notes are being taken on a separate google doc.

11.28.2023

These are the instructions and steps to upload data from the Raspberry Pi that controls the cosmic ray detectors to the i2u2 website. This has to be done every few days so that the files don’t get too large.

1. Use VNC viewer to access the Raspberry Pi where the cosmic ray software should already be open

2. Disable data collection with the button at the bottom of the main page

3. Note the log file address at the top of the main page

4. Go to the I2U2 website for uploading data (https://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/data/upload.jsp)

5. The username is CRwild and the password is the default wisrd password

6. Select our detector (6136) and the profile “Joe”

7. Select choose file and locate the noted file (It will be in Downloads and then Data)

8. Click upload data

9. Close the Cosmic Ray App

10. Open command prompt and go to the downloads directory (CD download should work, if not ask Megan or I for help)

11. Enter the command to re-open the Cosmic Ray App (You can probably use the up arrow to find it in the command history but it is “java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -cp /usr/share/java/RXTXcomm.jar:. -jar EQUIP_18jul2014.jar”)

12. The software should then open and automatically connect to the correct serial port (If it doesn’t the correct one is “/dev/ttyUSB0”)

13. Make sure that data collection is enabled by checking that the counts continue to go up

11.15.2023

We heard back from emailing Joe and the detectors are stacked so any data we have been collecting has been analyzed wrong. I will update the geometry through the VNC today. Joe also says that none of our data has been uploaded or at least has been saved for the past few months. I don’t know how to check it so I’ll look through all the information on the Raspberry Pi.

11.14.2023

Haven’t updated this in a while but I am going to check and analyze all the data from the cosmic ray detectors. The IP for the raspberry pi on the roof is 76.80.63.2::4900 and the name is just “pi”. We have been gathering data assuming that the detectors aren’t stacked but they might be.

Journal entries imported from the previous iteration of wisrd.org

8.23.23

First day of school/first new day of Wisrd. Lukas is in Finland so now I’m PI for cosmic ray stuff. I’m planning to work a lot more and then finish the motors for the detectors. It should take a month or so and then I can move on to collecting data and also other projects. If someone else is interested in cosmic rays I might be like Lukas and have them finish the motors. I want to start another particle physics lab and maybe also get and use new technology stuff.

10.4.22

Forgot to write for a while but this is all that happened. I downloaded the CORSIKA software on my mac but it didn’t work so downloaded it on a raspberry pi and it worked better. Still don’t fully understand the settings but am making progress. I managed to put in a bunch of inputs for it to simulate something but it kind of went wrong on the way. I’m going to do some troubleshooting today to try and find out whats happening. Also might do a bit of research on quarks because I watched a video and the strange ones are weird.

9.16.22

Kind of forgot to write until now but this is what happened this week. Worked on the intel nuc with Leov(didn’t work). Talked with Coltrain about Panoptes and started working with the scribit because Coltrain broke the strings holding it up. Also haven’t read much of the book this week but am about a third of the way in. It’s confusing. Probably have notes in the notebook. Yesterday we learned about the inquirer paper thing and were not sure what to do for it. Was interesting though.

8.30.22

update: I’m now starting to read a book called “The Order of Time” and am going to keep looking at the particle adventure website. Going to probably do this for a while

8.30.22

Last week I researched a bit on exoplanets after I talked to Cole and also researched cosmic rays with some of the info from last weeks entry. A bunch of notes are in my physical notebook. Today I’m going to ask about the Radio Astronomy group that there was an email about. Also do some more research.

8.24.22
Met with Cole to talk about Panoptes

Links to cosmic ray info to look into:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#:~:text=Cosmic%20rays%20were%20discovered%20by,satellites%20in%20the%20late%201950s. (we can start with wikipedia to help us focus our web searches)

www.cosmology.uci.edu

8.23.22

This is the first day of wisrd and we just spent the entire time learning about what we do. I’m kind of hoping to join one of the earth/space science groups, but I will need to look at and learn about all the groups. Maybe the cosmic ray group? Muons are interesting