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  My job was to look at the raw output from the very first runs with the ICARUS Detector, the very first time the neutrino beam was fired through it. I did this for ten weeks, with test firings happening once every few days. I used CERN's ROOT Analytical Framework (fancy C++ command line package) to inspect output, generate histograms, and perform qualitative analyses. Basically, a classmate and I spent two and a half months removing in to FermiLab workstations, looking at a half million histograms of the detectors output and saying "we got noise in this section's front-end-boards (FEBs) 39 through 51, was there maintenance? We might have some unshielded cabling there". It was gruntwork, but we were able to identify several behavioral trends in the detector systems over the course of several runs, and determine the detection thresholds at which we got the best output. Several times we presented to the Neutrino Division working group, and our findings and analysis was used to confirm their own, or we identified patterns that they had missed, which felt awesome.

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