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

小行星9600176 该建议旨在为制造20至200 GeV能量区间的天体物理伽马射线的地基空气切伦科夫探测器迈出第一步。 它打算适应和利用一部分非常大的太阳能，并在现有的太阳能炉塔中安装接收装置（PMT）。 教育项目的部分也似乎有吸引力和明智的。 他将让一名研究生和几名本科生参与研究，研究似乎是一个合理的时间尺度和适当的水平。 此外，他的提议还包括教室/实验室部分。 在其他人（最著名的是埃里克·马祖尔）的工作基础上，他打算将马祖尔的“课堂”中的“快速反馈”讲课方法引入到他将要教授的非理科学生的课程中。 这个想法已经在几个地方取得了成功，但对芝加哥来说是新的。 它需要一些硬件，安装和调试使用，但他已经考虑到了这一点（见下文）。 他还建议将CCD“摄影”方法引入芝加哥的高级本科实验室。 这两个项目似乎都有价值，在推进教学有和管理的范围。 提议者从粒子物理学和天体物理学的角度都有适合这项工作的经验。 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. ***