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Back SUCCESS! Today was great! We finally broke through th barrier keeping us back from setting the DAQ board to two-fold or double coincidence level. It took some time to figure out, but we finally figured it out by searching through the user's manual(the same one that is linked to our home page). Once we set it to double coincidence, we learned to interpret the data and then took it to another level by learning how to change the board to even three-fold and four-fold coincidence levels. After setting it back to two-fold coincidence, I tried to register our detectors to the Cosmic Ray E-lab, but i couldn't since we don't have administrative rights on the e-lab, so we'll need Dr. L's help for that one. B.T.W. When we say two or three-fold coincidence, that means that the DAQ board is only showing us data from particles that pass through two detectors for two-fold and three detectors for three-fold etc. within in a certain, very small time frame. Now what this does is makes the data more accurate by only showing particles that pass through the specified amount of detectors so it can eliminate other particles that may pass through, such as noise. The higher the level it is the better the chance you are reading data that is actually from a cosmic ray.
 * __Dec. 10, 07__**

JK and I went to the lab today, but after we realized there really wasn't much we could do there without the detectors registered, we decided to work on our milestone report and came up with our outline.
 * __Dec. 11, 07__**

__**Dec. 12, 07**__ With DL out of town for the rest of the week, JK and I see no point in going to the lab, since we need him to continue our work. So, again we worked on our milestone report.

__**Dec. 13, 07**__ All time dedicated to milestone report.

__**Dec. 14, 07**__ Once again, milestone report.