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__Cosmic Rays__
My project I am assigned is basically the investigation of cosmic rays. My partner in crime is DO and together we are trying to learn as much as we can about these mysterious rays. Cosmic rays are constantly hitting the earth and using cosmic ray detectors at the Quarknet Center at Notre Dame we try to gather information, draw conclusions, and run studies on them. We use a device called a DAQ board. It basically converts the electrons from the PMT's (photomultiplier tubes) into raw data which we can interpret on a computer. Lately we have been trying to tweak the DAQ board so that we can gather data more effectively and efficiently. Once we have our data we then upload it to the cosmic ray e-lab to run performance studies. Once the data is in graph form we can analyze the data and look for patterns or whatever we are trying to test with the data.