AL's+Week+of+March+17

__3/17/08__ - Talked about new assignements such as the particle physics examples of of the masterclass data and the LIGO assignment

__3/18-19/08__ - TOday we learned about LIGO and how to access the website and collect earthquake data for our respective month and year (my month and year is February 2005). We are going to find the data, put it on wikispaces, and map it on google earth. Also, I am trying to finish finding and identifying specific z particle decays (quark, tau, muon, and electron).

__3/20/08__ - Here are the images I've found so far.

4 jet quark because the particles are going in four different directions (denoted by four different colors).

tau decay because of the streamlined appearance and the low energy levels.

electron decay because of the short distance the particles travel.



This is an image of a muon decay because of the high energy and the "x" shapes around the energy deposits along the muon detector.