News:REU analysis08

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The Summer 2008 REU students completed their work for the summer and presented results in the 2008 Stony Brook Physics REU Symposium. The three students working in the MARIACHI Lab, Jacob Holter, Jason Immerman and Greg Smith, analyzed the data in a variety of ways. The students first worked on repairing and testing many of the scintillator detectors in the NSL lab as well as helping to set up new arrays. The bulk of their work regarded designing basic analysis tools including R and ROOT scripts validating, averaging, combining and plotting data. In addition, they wrote a script that calculated accidental coincidence rates between both detectors within an array and different array locations. Finally, they analyzed the relative time each detector is triggered in order to determine the direction of the incident cosmic ray shower using oscilloscope based DAQ data.

Their report can be found here.