JK's+Logbook+Week+of+Dec.+10th

__**Week of December 10**__

__//12-10-07//__ - Today was a good day for science! Today DO and I left school early to get to Quarknet to work more on the detectors. We finally figured out how to set the hyper-terminal program to double or two fold coincidence. We also learned how to interpret the data when it is set to two fold coincidence. Then, we learned how to set it to three and four fold. We found this information deep in the user's manual of the cosmic ray detector. However, there are a few pieces of data DO and I still need to interpret. After we had this break through, DO attempted to register the detector into the e-lab unsuccessfully. - (F.Y.I.) Coincidence is when a high energy ray passes through 2 or more of the detectors within the same time frame, which is something like 24 nano seconds. Therefore, two fold coincidence is the ray passing through 2 detectors, three fold is passing through 3, and so on. Setting coincidences helps to limit the "noise" that the detector picks up and pin-points high energy rays when they pass through.

__//12-11-07//__ - Today DO and I went to the Quarknet Center, but we decided to work on our milestone maps final instead of furthering our progress with the detectors. We made an outline of our milestones.

__//12-12-07//__ - Today DO and I worked on our midterm milestone map project again.

__//12-13-07//__ - I was absent from school today due to illness.

__//12-14-07//__ - Still DO worked on our seperate milestone reports.