GRAND-2009

 __Group Name__: Project GRAND: The //__Future__// in Cosmic Rays ! Students: Christian & Chris Back __Logsheet 01__ //Monday //: Date: 6/15/09 Progress: Created a troubleshooting flow chart for huts, which we used to bring 5 huts back to functioning level.

//Tuesday //: Date: 6/16/09 Progress: Used a program that is in the process of being contructed that allows users to access project GRAND's dayfiles. We also got information revealing a more in-depth view of the project. We also sat down with Professor Poirier and continued to learn about the process of the creation of high energy particles.

//Wednesday //: Date: 6/17/09 Progress: We changed the gas tanks and learned the very delicate process involved in doing so. We fixed 2 dehumidifier.

//Thursday //: Date: 6/18/09 Progress: We checked the high voltage current in the NWsw quad. Then, due to the rain, we spent the rest of the day doing chip inventory. Fun fun.

//Friday ////: //Date: 6/19/09 Progress: Today we finished our rainy day work and will end the day with troubleshooting some huts.

__Logsheet 02__  //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Monday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: __Date__: 6/22/09 Progress: We took a high voltage survey, cleaned a drain pipe in one of the huts, fixed a dehumidifier, and hauled some gar-bage to the dump-ster. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Tuesday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: __Date__: 6/23/09 Progress: Spent time at the campus and learned about circuits. Then we headed off for a meeting to discus the bugs that need to be worked out in a website that organizes data for Project Grand. Grabbed lunch at subway, disapointed for they had no 5 dollar foot longs, and headed back toward quarknet. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Wednesday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: __Date__: 6/24/09 Progress: We changed three tanks and then filled out the three sheets. Gas flow rate survey and found some interesting results. HOT HOT HOT. We replaced an F connector in a hut, and fixed it! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Thursday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: __Date__: 6/25/09 Progress: <span style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Field trip <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">!!! We learned even more details about scintillating fibers and particle detector parts. Enjoyed our time with the whole group, lots 'o fun. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Friday: //<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">Date: 6/26/09 Progress: Today! We took a close look into a troublesome hut, found that it had some shorted chambers and reworked some of the high voltage cables. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center; display: block;">__Logsheet 03__ //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Monday: Date: 6/29/09 // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: We had a little chat with Prof. Poirier with what we were gonna do this week. Put in a 50 volt zener diode in hut 45 to eliminate hot wire problems, or at least attempt to. Started a survey over EVERYTHING, which means opening all the huts and taking a stock of what was going on in there. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Tuesday: Date: 6/30/09 // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: Headed to Notre Dame for data analysis. We spent a lot of time using the CSE dayfiles program. We also delved into the shinsu university particle data site. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: center; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Wednesday: Date: 7/1/09 // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: We yet again changed three tanks. The rest of the time was spent working on our survey over EVERYTHING. We then went to Menard's to purchase 10 things of caulk for a broken hut roof. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: center; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Thursday: Date: 7/2/09 // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: Continued survey. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: center; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Friday: Date: 7/3/09 // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: QuarkNet Holiday <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="text-align: left; font-family: 'times new roman'; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Logsheet 04 //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; display: block;">Monday <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">__Date__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 7/6/09 Progress: Today we kept working on our survey over everything, we started in the most difficult huts to work with today. It's very tedious, but the information will help us.

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; display: block;">//Tuesday// : __Date__: 7/7/09 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: Headed to Notre Dame for data analysis. Cj and I spent time looking for patterns in changes in the daily peeks in muon detection. Most months that were a good deal earlier or later than november were very sporadic in their daily peeks and made this very difficult. <span style="text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="text-align: left; font-family: 'times new roman'; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Wednesday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">__Date__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 7/8/09 Progress: Today we changed 3 tanks and finished our everything survey finally. We started 2 more surveys today. The first one was a survey on the details of the quad box and if anything needed replaced/fixed, we finished this one.. The second one was a gas flow survey where we found some interesting results so far. We fixed huts 31 and 24 by simply reconnecting some cables in each. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Thursday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">__Date__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 7/9/09 Progress: Today we finished the gas flow survey and found some very troubling results. We are losing roughly 50% of the gas the is sent out. We started leak checking pipes inside the trailer until the batteries died on the leak checker. We then moved onto finding Cj's keys and we did. Victory! <span style="text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="text-align: left; font-family: 'times new roman'; display: block; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Friday: //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">__Date__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 6/10/09 Progress: Today we finished the leak testing and recorded where we found significant leaks. The biggest leaks are on the west side of the field. Then we typed up a paper on how to do the “Everything Survey” and organized our leak findings a little better. Fun stuff.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">__Logsheet 05__ //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Monday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Date __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 7/13/09 Progress: We went over what we did last week with Dr. Poirier and discussed further into what we are going to accomplish this week. We are going to draw a diagram on Autocad of the field with all the gas lines and high voltage current lines included. Today we began drawing the field and we got all the dimensions from the general layout of the field (hut spacing/hut length/etc.) and drew the general layout. Looks good. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Tuesday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Date __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 7/14/09 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: Today we used the CSE website to look for daily peak patterns, like how long the daily peaks would happen before the peaks went away replaced with a decreasing or increasing line. . <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Wednesday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Date __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 7/15/09 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: 2 tanks were changed today, it was a little weird because the tank that ended up feeding the system while we changed the other tanks only had about 70 psi in it. Then we went and took dimensions for the barn for our Autocad project. Christian put capacitor sockets on all the chips in the new SEB in H72 and CJ worked on drawing out the gas flow/HV lines on the field drawing. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Thursday //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Date __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 7/16/09 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: Progress continued on our drawings today. We finished the hut (outside) drawing including important dimensions. We put the old yet still functioning SEB from H72 into H12 but the same problems persisted. Then we took the possibly functioning SEB from H12 and put it into H23 but the same problems persisted. H88 was a possible candidate for a SEB transplant but a majority of the amp boards are covered in some kind of animal product. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Friday: //__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Date __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">: 7/17/09 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Progress: We took some more measurements for the drawing for the hut (inside) but other than that we didn't get much accomplished today due to the tour through Notre Dame. The tour was very informative. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">