The PENN/QUARKNET project with the University of Pennsylvania High Energy Physics group.
The participating high school science teachers are:

Francis Lipinski from Cheltenham High School, Cheltenham, PA.
misterlipinski@yahoo.com

and

Marshall Mosesson from Moorestown High School, Moorestown, NJ
mosessom@high.mtps.com

University of Pennsylvania contacts:

Rick Van Berg
tel. (215) 898-5977
rick@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu

Mitch Newcomer
tel. (215) 898-4456
mitch@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu

website contact:
Walter Kononenko
tel. (215) 898-7572
wk@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu
This website ---> http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~wk/teachers-project.html


The slides from the Radiation Safety and Radioactive Source talk by Walter Kononenko on Tuesday, July 17, 2001

slides of the radiation safety and source presentation


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the table top experiment at Penn March 2, 2001

the gas particle detector

High Voltage circuit (blue capacitors) HV board, another view

Frank Lipinski with the setup The gas cylinder [P10 (10% methane/ 90% argon] is on the left (standing blue steel cylinder)

the setup

the science teacher team of Frank Lipinski and Marshall Mosesson

Frank and Marshall


The overall description of the project belongs here.

QUARKnet link at University of Pennsylvania



The Quarknet Preamp schematic in PostScrip format:

QuarkNet Preamp schematic


the components and cost here


references here:



The QUARKNET Project on July 9, 2001

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Collection of photos taken by Mitch Newcomer on the QuarkNet field trip to Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, New York July 18, 2001.

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More photos of people working on their detectors taken July 19, 2001. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
The QuarkNet 2001 'class photo' on the last day, July 19, 2001.

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The following images were taken on January 22, 2002, during the QuarkNet meeting at Penn.

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January 23, 2002
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