1. Name of QuarkNet center: Indiana University

2. Names of teachers at the center (list):

David Blair

3. Brief description of each teachers' assignment/task/project (including focus of the research and how each teacher will contribute to the overall research):

David Blair: In the context of a new "Hall D" project and detector planned at Jefferson Lab, studies and measurements of calorimeter prototypes containing heavy liquid (LST). Compare transmission and quantum efficiency of water and LST.

Matt Hitchings: Focus of research was on the design, fabrication, and testing of multi-channel fiber optic waveguides to be used to carry light from the scintillating fiber tracker and preshower calorimeters of the upgrade DØ detector at Fermilab. Contribute towards design and construction of light flasher box; measurements of light transmission and attenuation length of fibers.

Prof. Harold Ogren, Prof. Andrzej Zieminski (part-time mentor, Hitchings)

5. Amount and distribution of contact time (e.g., two-week summer institute, three one-day follow-up sessions in October, December, February):

Both: one-week summer institute at Fermilab with QuarkNet organizers;

David Blair: eight weeks summer research work;

6. Nature of follow-up:

Meetings planned to discuss. Transfer of knowledge and cooperative involvement to design classroom activities and plans for involving additional high school teachers the following year.

7. Remuneration received by teachers (including college credit, if any):

Standard QuarkNet rate of $550/week.

8. Special facilities available to teachers:

Unix workstations, PC workstations, instrumentation laboratories, digital data acquisition systems, advanced test equipment, laboratories at Jefferson Lab.

9. Specific focus area (research focus) of facility/department:

Experimental particle physics.