DO's+November+12

Nov. 12, 07__** As everyone knows, DL was out of town and that affects JK's and mine work since to get some real progress accomplished we need to set an appointment up with him to go over to the Quarknet Center. Although he was gone I still tried to keep up with what I'd have to do when i got to chance to go there, and in doing that we looked at a pretty basic animation of how Cosmic Ray data is collected. Click [|here] to check it out.
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Today JK and I went to the Cosmic Ray e-lab again and this very helpful [|ASPIRE] link that took us to many helpful and easy to use Cosmic Rays applications. The applications that it gave us were Particle Direction, Angle of Particle Arrival, Average Velocity, and Maximizing Recorded Events. All it did was breakdown the link from Nov. 12 into more detailed, but still easy to understand diagrams.
 * __Nov. 13, 07__**

On the e-lab with JK, we looked at a pretty neat animation board on how CMS differs from Cosmic Rays by the way data is collected to the way it is processed. Click [|here] to ckeck it out for yourself. After that we went to a DAQII board. This is very tricky on how to understand and even we're not 100% completely sure on how it works, so once we get help from some higher outside sources we'll let you know what is going on.
 * __Nov. 14, 07__**

JK and I today found a link from the e-lab to another Cosmic Ray website run by SLAC (Stanford Linear Acceleration Center). We browsed around the site in hopes of finding something new to us but unfortunately we didn't and most of it was just a review of what we already know.
 * __Nov. 15, 07__**

Today was one of the more exciting days of researching Cosmic Rays, from the CORSIKA site (link located on Cosmic Ray homepage) we watched several different types of cosmic ray showers including iron, proton, and gamma showers. If you click on the CORSIKA link and then click on "Shower Movies" you can watch the computer simulations that we did.
 * __Nov. 16, 07__**