Resumen de Beyond the Classroom: Profiling Muon Flux in Relation to Overburden in Fermilab’s MINOS Tunnel

Eleanor Anne Winkler, Paul Graham, Nathan A. Unterman, Benjamin Grey, Jacob M. Miller, Max J. Miller, Allen J. Sears, Alex Bernat, Shoshana Frank, Joshua Simon, Shira K. Eliaser, Tim Blackmore, Emmanuelle Copeland, Marybeth Senser, Mark Adams, Henry Seiden, Anthony Valsamis

• With support from QuarkNet, high school students investigated the effect of overburden on muon flux by collecting data from Fermilab’s Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) tunnel. Muon flux varied due to a change in overburden created by a 103-meter deep access shaft. A profile of muon flux as a function of distance from the access shaft was measured by observing muon flux from different locations within the tunnel.