Using the CD

links marked with the blue indicate the link is to an external website, off the CD. Using these links will require your computer to have an active internet connection.

Use QuickTime, Apple Computer's free multimedia player.

QuickTime is available for download here

CD created by Eric Muhs, Physics teacher, Roosevelt High School, 1410 NE 66th ST. Seattle, Wa 98117 (206) 252-4898 ericmuhs@comcast.net

View the 20 gb website at www.invisiblemoose.org

CD on cosmic rays available here at www.invisiblemoose.org

CD on cosmic rays & neutrinos at the South Pole available here at www.invisiblemoose.org

Portable cosmic ray detectors designed by Howard Matis of Lawrence Berkeley Labs.

Thanks to Howard for supplying boards and analog chips for our project.

LabPro interface and LoggerPro software by Vernier Software

Many thanks to Dave Vernier and Ian Honohan of Vernier for helping sort through the vagaries of recording data on the LabPro/TI-83+ system

Constructed at various times by Eric Muhs, Tyler Sandstrom, Poompasu Poonchayanont, Van Poonchayanont, Hans-Gerd Berns, Austin Watson, Evan Campbell, Jim Madsen, Jeremy Houk, Liz Sewell, and Tommy Dunnam.

Material assistance from Tom Jordan of Quarknet/Fermilab for the photomultiplier tubes (thanks, Tom)

Jim Madsen & Susan Millar of the IceCube Education Resource Center at the University of Wisconsin for the carpentry (thanks, Jim), and the $ (thanks, both)

Hans-Gerd Berns of the University of Washington for fixing things (thanks, Hans)

Friends Tom Boucher & Tom Haff for driving all the way to Texas to help make this happen.

The idea for this experiment came from Stu Briber, physics teacher from Independence High School in Sunnyvale, Ca, who traveled to the NSBF in the summer of 2000.