The Project
- The
Escaramujo Project was a series of hands-on laboratory courses
on High Energy Physics and Astroparticle Instrumentation, in
Latinamerican Institutions. The Physicist Federico Izraelevitch traveled on a van with his family, from Chicago to Buenos Aires, teaching the courses.
- The courses took place at Institutions in México, Guatemala, Costa
Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Brasil, Paraguay and Argentina,
at an advanced undergraduate or graduate level.
- The sessions were based on a cosmic ray detector developed specifically
for the project. The students assembled and started it up during the
courses.
- After
each course, one detector remained at the academic institution to be
used by the faculty in facilitating the continued education of future
students, in order to develop interest in science and engineering.
- Topics of laboratory courses included:
- elementary particle physics and cosmic ray phenomena
- radiation detection and instrumentation
- low-level light sensing with solid state devices
- front-end analog electronics
- object-oriented data analysis (C++ and ROOT)
