Pauls Fun Summer Adventure

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Pauls Fun Summer Adventure

• Paul Edmons Summer Work for WALTA and Set-up for
  UW site.

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Summer Experiments

• Polished vs. Unpolished vs. Foiled
• HV Testing
• Position Testing
• Recharacterizing Detectors

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Polished vs. Unpolished vs. Foiled

• Purpose To discover whether it is worth
  Polishing and Foiling WALTA Detectors
• Tests Run
• Discriminator Threshold Test
• Muon Telescope
• Special Thanks to John Stoltenberg

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HV Testing

• Purpose To assess whether or not we were running
  our PMTs at too low a voltage.
• Used Muon Telescope

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Position Testing

• Purpose To get an idea of how our detectors
  really look.
• Test used was a modified Muon Telescope
• More comprehensive experiments need to be done.

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Recharacterization Test

• Purpose To check for consistency in data.
• Test Run
• Muon Telescope
• Discriminator Threshold Test
• Tests were consistent

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UW WALTA Site

• Location
• Top of B-wing Physics Building (Temporary)
• Top of A-wing Physics Building
• Will start with 3 detectors
• Used for DAQ card testing and Data Collection
• Will be up by the end of the year