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Seventh Week

We really began analyzing the data from Max's '4MeV protons colliding with isotopic water' experiments.  'Isotopic water' refers to the fact that we are analyzing different kinds of water; we are examining H2O, D2O, and HDO.  What Nick and I are dealing with is a large text file that contains the data of four different experimental runs that four different species of targets.  There was an H2O run, a D2O run, an HDO run, and an air run.  In a 'run' we used one target, like H2O, at time.  That way we could look at the physics of one target at a time.  The air run was simply to remove the error from the data of the three isotopic water runs.

First, Nick and I moved the data out of the large data file and broke it up into four smaller files.  Each small file had data one specie so that we could partition the work and work in parallel.  We then put the small data files in to a form that could be ran in a FORTRAN program, written by Dr. Ben-Itzhak,  that would process the raw data into something more workable.  What the program does is 'decouple' the data.