{"id":1979,"date":"2010-05-01T20:40:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2017-01-24T20:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:59:27","slug":"design-and-construction-of-optical-concentrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/design-and-construction-of-optical-concentrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Design and Construction of Optical Concentrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"style7\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"style9\">Matthew Hakes with Corbin Covault<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"style7\" align=\"center\"><a class=\"style11\" href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2010\/05\/15022410\/MatthewHakesPoster.pdf\">Design and Construction of Optical Concentrators<\/a><\/h3>\n<p align=\"justify\">When ultra high energy particles strike the upper atmosphere, they emit Cherenkov radiation.\u00a0 By studying the radiation, we hope to determine the direction of their travel and ultimately where they come from which is currently unknown.\u00a0 Optical concentrators are used to limit the viewing angle, allowing the experimenter to select a portion of the sky and focus the light from that portion into a detector.\u00a0 The main considerations in the design of a concentrator are performance characteristics and ease of construction.\u00a0 Computer simulations will be done to investigate the performance of various concentrator designs.\u00a0 The designs which exhibit desirable characteristics will be evaluated on how easily they can be built.\u00a0 The one which is the best compromise between performance and ease of construction will be built and tested to ensure it has the characteristics predicted in the simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Hakes with Corbin Covault<br \/>\n<a class=\"style11\" href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2010\/05\/15022410\/MatthewHakesPoster.pdf\">Design and Construction of Optical Concentrators<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">When ultra high energy particles strike the upper atmosphere, they emit Cherenkov radiation.\u00a0 By studying the radiation, we hope to determine the direction of their travel and ultimately where they come from which is currently unknown.\u00a0 Optical concentrators are used to limit the viewing angle, allowing the experimenter to select a portion of the sky and focus the light from that portion into a detector.\u00a0 The main considerations in the design of a concentrator are performance characteristics and ease of construction.\u00a0 Computer simulations will be done to investigate the performance of various concentrator designs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/design-and-construction-of-optical-concentrators\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Design and Construction of Optical Concentrators<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[48,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}