Development and Testing of a Spark Chamber
A summer job position is open in the experimental group of particle
physics, at the Department of Physics of McGill University.
The group consists of five faculty members involved in three
international fundamental research projects.
The job would entail completing the installation of a data acquisition
system and testing a spark chamber used in the detection and
visualisation of cosmic muons.
This projects involves a chain of proved methods and techniques
of experimental particle physics: mecanical assembly of the chamber,
the sciuntillators, implementation of the electronics, and high
voltages, efficiency tests, data acquisition on a PC and analysis of the
results on UNIX machines.
Tha data are taken with sonic detectors (piezzo-sensors).
Eventually, depending on time, data could also be taken with a digital
camera.
The initial goal of the setup is to measure the angular dependence of
the cosmic muon flux.
The work would be performed in the physics department under the
supervision of a faculty member.
Other colleagues, technicians and students are also part of the working
environment and could answer to questions from the student.
The working language in the department is normally English, but French
is also frequently used.
The physics student will have working room in the group lab and
access to all equipement, facilities and computers as needed.
The student should be especially interested, motivated and willing
to take initiative.
The detector is already used as demonstration device in the department
and will be later used in other academic projects.
Prof. François Corriveau
McGill University
Départment of Physics
3600, University Street
Montréal, Québec
Canada, H3A 2T8
Tel: (514)-398-6515
Fax: (514)-398-3733
Office: 330
E-mail: corriveau à physics.mcgill.ca
Web Page: http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~corriveau