Questions:

1. Does the Standard Model predict all force carrying particles should be massless?
2. Why was there no light present in the Universe until ~380,000 years after the Big Bang?

Status:

Assignment 1: (Event Display Tasks)

Assignment 2: Completed (Update HAWC MSU website)

Assignment 3: Completed (Shift Wizard questions)

Assignment 4: Completed (HAWC issues & HAWCmon suggestions)

Assignment 5: (ROOT tutorial) Cannot complete because I do not have access to the files

Assignment 6: Completed (Add Shift Wizard questions to MSU HAWCmon)

Assignment 7: Completed (Rename HV types on UMD HAWCmon)

Assignment 8: (Populate connectivity database)

Assignment 9: (AERIE tutorial)

Assignment 10: Completed (Document "How to Edit Shift Wizard Questions" in FOSWiki)

Assignment 11: Completed (GRB Research Project)

Assignment 12: Completed (Read Udara's pulsar wind nebula paper and submit comments)

Assignment 13: Completed (Document "How to Edit Measurement Types" in FOSWiki)

Assignment 14: Completed (Document "How to Learn ROOT" in FOSWiki)

Assignment 15: Completed (Read Tilan's PBH paper and submit comments)

Assignment 16: Completed (Check Prof. Linnemann's work)

Assignment 17: Completed with Tilan (Create a code for GRB binnings)

Week 1

Monday June 2, 2014

• Added as user to Cluster
• Reading: Cherenkov radiation, PMTs, cosmic rays, Milagro, HAWC, HAWC proposal

Tuesday June 3, 2014

• Assignment 1: Event Display Task list (see Attachment)
• Added as user to HAWC internal website (http://private.hawc-observatory.org/)
• Reading: Oh-My-God particle, radiation length, zenith, gamma ray bursts, Fermi telescope, Ultra high energy cosmic rays, Fly's Eye Detector
• PBH meeting

Wednesday June 4, 2014

• Ordered books: The High Energy Universe and Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics
• Reading: Hawking radiation, neutrino oscillations, synchrotron radiation, ch. 1 "Introduction" in The High Energy Universe

Thursday June 5, 2014

• Assignment 2: Add Udara's thesis and "Milagro observations of potential Tev emitters" into HAWC MSU website under Milagro papers (http://hawc.pa.msu.edu/milagro_papers/papers.html)
• Assignment 3: Combine current HAWC Shift Guide (http://private.hawc-observatory.org/wiki/index.php/HAWC_Data_Taking) with previous Milagro Shift Guide (http://private.hawc-observatory.org/hawc.umd.edu/pretz/hawc/sparky-web/) to form new HAWCmon Shift Wizard to be completed here: (http://hawcmon.umd.edu/hawcmon/dashboard/shift_start)
• Added as user to Foswiki
• Started Foswiki log
• REU Lecture, Prof. Stuart Tessmer

Friday June 6, 2014

• Reading: atmospheric Cherenkov radiation, primordial black holes, super-massive black holes, cosmic ray showers vs. gamma ray showers, attenuation, Zigfried Hampel
• Group meeting
• Week 1 Review (see Attachment)

Week 2

Monday June 9, 2014

• Reading: Monte Carlo Method, normalized Gaussian function
• Added as user to pa.msu.edu (http://www.pa.msu.edu/) in order to edit the HAWC MSU website (http://hawc.pa.msu.edu/)
• Completed Assignment 3: Shift Wizard Questions (see Attachment)

Tuesday June 10, 2014

• Reading: ch. 2 "The nuts and bolts of the Universe" in The High Energy Universe, four fundamental forces, spread of cosmic vs. gamma ray showers, Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics,
  polynomial interpolation, problems with the Standard Model, Dark Energy discovery
• PBH meeting

Wednesday June 11, 2014

• Assignment 4a: List suggested additional information for HAWCmon as described by Brenda Dingus, Gus Sinnis and Tyce Deyoung e-mails
• Assignment 4b: List observed issues with HAWC as described by Brenda Dingus, Gus Sinnis and Tyce Deyoung e-mails
• Reading: ch. 3 "Cosmology" in The High Energy Universe
• Completed Assignment 4a (see Attachment) and 4b (See Attachment)

Thursday June 11, 2014

• NSCL Lecture - Professor Artemis Spyrou - "Traveling beyond the neutron dripline: di-neutrons, new radioactivity and other surprises"
• Reading: ch. 3 "Cosmology" in The High Energy Universe, spacetime, Planck epoch, cosmic microwave background
• REU Lecture, Prof. Wolfgang Bauer
  

Friday June 12, 2014

• Week 2 Review (see Attachment)
• Reading: ch. 9 "Gravitational waves" in The High Energy Universe
• Completed Assignment 2
• Group meeting

Week 3

Monday June 16, 2014

• Revised Shift Wizard Questions to include links to the information on HAWCmon
• Sam's practice talk

Tuesday June 17, 2014

• Met with Jenn to discuss Shift Wizard Questions content/order
• PBH meeting
• Received HAWCmon admin user account info (http://hawcmon.umd.edu/hawcmon/dashboard/admin/)
• Reading: "Properties of the surface detector data recorded by the Pierre Auger observatory" thesis (http://www.hep.physik.uni-siegen.de/pubs/master/grebe-master.pdf)
• Assignment 5: Complete ROOT tutorial written by Dr. Bill Seligman of Columbia University (http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~seligman/root-class/RootClass2014.pdf)
• Revised Shift Wizard Questions to include information from Jenn's version (see Attachment)

Wednesday June 18, 2014

• Began ROOT Class 2014 tutorial
• Reading: UNIX command line, Secure Shell software (SSH)
• Assignment 6: First test Shift Wizard questions on MSU site (http://grb.pa.msu.edu/hawcmon/dashboard/dashboard), then implement final version onto UMD site (http://hawcmon.umd.edu/hawcmon)
• Assignment 7: Modify naming scheme for HV measurements (http://hawcmon.umd.edu/hawcmon/admin/ems/measurement_type/)
• Assignment 8: Populate connectivity database with information from all 4 crates (either by hand or by creating python script)
• Assignment 9: Complete AERIE tutorial listed as Manual on HAWCWiki under Software (http://private.hawc-observatory.org/hawc.umd.edu/doxygen/aerie-trunk-docs/tutorial.html)
• Assignment 10: Document "How To Edit Shift Wizard Questions" on FOSWiki under Useful Information
• Completed Assignment 10 (here)

Thursday June 19, 2014

• Added hyperlinks to all Attachments in this log
• Completed Assignment 6 (http://grb.pa.msu.edu/hawcmon/dashboard/shift_start)
• Continued ROOT tutorial
• Week 3 Review (see Attachment)
• Leaving around 12:30 pm this afternoon (sister's wedding in California)
• Assignment 11: GRB Research Project (here) with postdoc Tilan Ukwatta
• REU Lecture, Prof. Kirsten Tollefson (missed this one, unfortunately)

Friday June 20, 2014

• In California

Week 4

Monday June 23, 2014

• REU students from Notre Dame visit MSU for the day
• Assignment 12: Read Udara's paper on pulsar wind nebula (here) and submit comments
• Completed Assignment 12 (see Attachment)

Tuesday June 24, 2014

• Tested Shift Wizard questions on MSU HAWCmon
• GRB Project meeting with Tilan
• Received two papers from Tilan to read: Peter Meszaros (here) and Jon Hakkila (here)
• Reading: ch. 7 "Gamma-ray bursts" in The High Energy Universe
• HELP section for Shift Wizard (see Attachment)

Wednesday June 25, 2014

• Completed Assignment 7 for Type ids 488 - 547
• Noticed 3 mistakes (see Attachment) in Wiener HV table
• Compared all 64 values listed in HV Wiener table with those listed on the Electronics configuration page to check for discrepancies
• Assignment 13: Document "How to Edit Measurement Types" on FOSWiki under Useful Information
• Completed Assignment 13 (here)

Thursday June 26, 2014

• Continued reading on gamma-ray bursts for GRB Project with Prof. Linnemann's suggestion ( here)
• REU Lecture, Prof. Artemis Spyrou
• ROOT tutorial plots (example) (example) (example)
• Assignment 14: "How to Learn ROOT" on FOSWiki under Useful Information
• Completed Assignment 14 (here)

Friday June 27, 2014

• GRB Project meeting with Tilan
• Finished reading Meszaros and Hakkila papers on GRB
• Cannot complete ROOT tutorial because we do not have access to the files used in the tutorial
• ROOT tutorial exercises (example) (example)
• Week 4 Review (see Attachment)

Week 5

Monday June 30, 2014

• GRB Project
• Assignment 15: Read Tilan's PBH Paper and submit comments
• Completed Assignment 15: Here are comments
• Found additional ROOT tutorials on the website LinkSCEEM, funded by the European Union (Day 1) (Day 2) (Day 3) (Day 4) (Day 5)

Tuesday July 1, 2014

• PBH meeting
• GRB Project
• Assignment 16: Check Prof. Linnemann's work (e-mail here)

Wednesday July 2, 2014

• REU group lunch
• Meeting with mentor
• Completed Assignment 16: Solutions to Prof. Linnemann's exercise 1 here and exercise 2 here

Thursday July 3, 2014

• PBH meeting
• REU Lecture, Prof. John Mcguire
• 2 weeks to complete GRB Project
  

Friday July 4, 2014

• Holiday

Week 6

Monday July 7, 2014

• GRB Project
• grb binning by hand

Tuesday July 8, 2014

• GRB Project
• grb binning by hand
• GRB Project meeting with Prof. Tollefson

Wednesday July 9, 2014

• GRB Project
• GRB binning by hand

Thursday July 10, 2014

• GRB Project
• REU lecture, Prof. Wolfgang Mittig
• GRB binning by hand

Friday July 11, 2014

• GRB Project
• Group meeting
• GRB binning by hand
• Assignment 17: Create a code to determine GRB binnings in lieu of computation by hand

Week 7

Monday July 14, 2013

• GRB Project
• Learning Python

Tuesday July 15, 2014

• GRB Project
• Finished reading "Learn Python In a Day"
• PBH Meeting
• Began Python code for Assignment 17 with Tilan

Wednesday July 16, 2014

• GRB Project
• Continued Python code

Thursday July 17, 2014

• GRB Project
• Sent python code to Tilan to work on
• REU lecture, Prof. Wade Fisher

Friday July 18, 2014

• GRB Project
• Group meeting

Week 8

Monday July 21, 2014

• GRB Project, data acquisition
• Received python code last night from Tilan for Assignment 17

Tuesday July 22, 2014

• GRB Project, data acquisition
• Completed Assignment 17: Modified Tilan's python code to include intervals for decimals; code now runs for all RA, DEC and z binnings
• PBH meeting

Wednesday July 23, 2014

• GRB Project, data acquisition and analysis

Thursday July 24, 2014

• GRB Project, data analysis

Friday July 25, 2014

• GRB Project, data analysis
• REU lecture, Prof. Micheal Syphers
• Group meeting

Week 9

Monday July 28, 2014

• GRB Project, REU paper
• Meeting with Prof. Tollefson about GRB project

Tuesday July 29, 2014

• GRB Project, REU paper

Wednesday July 30, 2014

• GRB Project, REU paper

Thursday July 31, 2014

• GRB project, REU paper
• REU lecture, Prof.
• NSF REU Director meeting

Friday August 2, 2014

• GRB Project, data analysis
• Group meeting

Week 10

Monday August 4, 2014

• Worked from home
• GRB Project, presentation

Tuesday August 5, 2014

• GRB Project
• Mock presentation

Wednesday August 6, 2014

• REU presentations
• GRB Project, paper

Thursday August 6, 2014

• REU presentation (see attachment below; pdf file too large to upload)
  
• GRB Project, paper

Friday August 8, 2014

• Completed Assignment 11 (GRB Project)
• REU program commences
• Sigma Notebook (see attachment)
• GRB Project Notebook (see attachment)
• BAT RA vs. Redshift spreadsheet (see attachment)