Fermilab Summer Students - 2007

Elissa Knoff
College: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Home: Algonquin, IL
Mentor: Bob Peterson
Report (pdf): Plateauing Cosmic Ray Detectors to Achieve Optimum Operating Voltage
Research: Elissa worked for Quarknet, producing and learning about cosmic ray detectors used in high school classrooms. Specifically, she researched plateauing, which is part of the detectors' calibration process.