Introduction Video:

The Dawson High Energy Physics club, run by Dr. Manuel Toharia Zapata is a place for curious college students to learn more about particle physics. Every week, students from a wide variety of programs meet to learn and discuss about flavour physisc, extra dimensions and much more. We engage with both theory and experiments, learning about and observing particles. Our many projects include an Alpha particle detector, spark chamber, Scintillating Chamber, and more.

• Scintillating Chamber
• Opentrig
• Alpha particle detector
• Higgs Data Analysis

Here's a video about our The Scintillating Chamber!

The Scintillating Chamber is our winning proposal to the 2025 Beamline for Schools competition. It consists of an arrangement of scitillator rods to detect and model the trajectory of cosmic muons in three dimensions. The possible trajectories are then calculated and displayed graphically to the user.

See Paper HERE or on the BL4S winners' page

open-source trigger system

Opentrig is an extension of The Scintillating Chamber. After our proposal was declared one of the winners of the 2025 Beamline for Schools competition, we decided to create a new prototype of our detector, that was more reliable and better adapted to the requirements of our experiments at DESY.

At the heart of this new prototype is Opentrig, a 24-channel digital DAQ (Data Acquisition System) with variable input thresholding, designed to interface with timing systems controlled by the AIDA-2020 TLU, that served as the most important measurment tool during our experiments at DESY.

• Milo Belarbi
• David Birnbaum
• Tykhon Byshkin
• Matvey Chirchikov
• Danah Dézémé
• Arij Mohamedi
• Evan Parasol, blackdragon6493@gmail.com
• Leandro Perez-Moran, pemle2007@gmail.com
• Ari Polterovich
• Tian Yi, Xia, xtxiatianyi@gmail.com
• Andy Yu, andy.yu@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
• Aljoscha Ziegler, ziegleraljoscha@gmail.com