CHICOS Workshop

0) General Info Web Sites:

Particle Data Group outreach site, including a very good listing of educational physics web sites.
Physics Central, the American Physical Society's public interest web site.

1) Modern Physics and Cosmic Rays

a) Background Material:

The four basic forces
Structure and sizes of atoms and nuclei
Elementary particles: hadrons, leptons, and photons.
Basic nuclear processes
Cosmic distance scales

b) Cosmic Rays:

2) The CHICOS detector system

a) Background Material:

Basic Layout
(Additional Information)
Timing measurement using GPS and more detail.
Plastic scintillator
(Also see the scintillator sections of "Building a Cosmic Ray Detector" in http://www.lbl.gov/abc/cosmic/)
Photo-multiplier tube - movie (QT movie)
Also, http://quarknet.fnal.gov/projects/index.shtml
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~pankratz/detector_pres/node12.html
http://www.triumf.ca/safety/rpt/rpt_6/node21.html

b) CHICOS Installation:

3) Operating Your CHICOS System

4) Educational Opportunities