A New Detector for Gamma Ray Astrophysics Between 20 and 1,000 GeV

9600176科瓦特该提案旨在为20至200GeV能量区间内的天体物理伽马射线建立一个地面空气切伦科夫探测器的第一步。它打算改造和利用一部分超大型太阳能，并在现有的太阳能炉塔上安装一个接收装置(PMT)。教育项目部分似乎也很有吸引力，也很合理。他将让一名研究生和几名本科生参与这项似乎合理的时间尺度和适当水平的研究。此外，他的提案还包括教室/实验室部分。在其他人(最著名的是埃里克·马祖尔)工作的基础上，他打算将马祖尔“班级”的“快速反馈”授课方法引入他将教授的一门非理科学生的课程。这一想法在几个地方取得了成功，但对芝加哥来说将是新的。它需要一些硬件、安装和调试，但他已经考虑到了这一点(见下文)。他还提议将电荷耦合器件的“摄影”方法引入芝加哥的高级本科实验室。这两个项目似乎都在促进那里的教学方面有价值，而且范围都是可管理的。从粒子物理和天体物理的角度来看，提出者都有与这项工作相适应的经验。他在天文学和粒子天体物理学方面都有工作，并积极参与了Stacee的前期工作。***

9600176 Covault This proposal intends to create the first step in making a ground-based air Cherenkov detector for astrophysical gamma rays in the energy interval from 20 to 200GeV. It intends to adapt and utilize a portion of the very large solar and to install a receiving device (PMT's) in the existing solar furnace tower. The educational project portion also seems attractive and sensible. He will involve a graduate student and several undergraduates in the research on what seems like a sensible time scale and at appropriate levels. Additionally, there is a classroom/laboratory component to his proposal. Building on the work of others (most notably Eric Mazur) he intends to introduce the "rapid feedback" lecture method of Mazur's "Classtalk" into a course for non- science students he will be teaching. This idea has been successful in several places but would be new to Chicago. It requires some hardware, installation and shakedown use but he has accounted for that (see below). He is also proposing to introduce CCD "photography" methods into the Chicago advanced undergraduate labs. Both of these projects seem valuable in advancing instruction there and to be of manageable scope. The proposer has had experience appropriate to this work from both a particle physics and astrophysics perspective. He has worked in both astronomy and in particle astrophysics and has been an active participant in the preliminary work for STACEE. ***