Photoes of QuarkNet Detector

This picture shows the laptop which runs Labview to control the QuarkNet board.

The Labview program was developed by Mathes Kanishka Dayananda. He also worked on a Labview program to control the ESP detector through serial ports.

This picture shows the QuarkNet DAQ board. We mounted the board inside a small note card box which was bought from Office Depot. Out shop staff, Pete Walker, cut the box on the sides so that cables can be run through.

Here is a view of the downtown area in Atlanta. The picture was taken on the roof top of the Natual Science Center at Georgia State University. The dome in distance is the state capital of Georgia.

Here is a picture taken on the 5th floor in our Natual Science Center. The detector on right has been running for more than a month, which is a senior research project.

Kanishka was working on setting up his Labview program for taking cosmic ray rate measurement.

QuarkNet detector works with Labview

After a quick exercise, Kanishka Dayananda (my Ph.D. student) was able to operate the QuarkNet detector with Labview running on a laptop.

We took the detector to the roof of the Natural Science Center this afternoon and ran the DAQ for 10 minutes. We then took the detector down to the 5th floor and made a quick counting rate measurement at a location next to the two-paddle detector which has been taking data for over one month.