The field of detectors at GRAND has 64 huts taking data. Each hut has AC power, gas, high voltage, and clock signal coming into it and a data line going back to the trailer.
Inside there are Proportional Wire Chambers (PWCs) which collect the data and station electronics which run the data collecting system.
There is also a dehumidifier and heater in order to keep the inside of the hut at a relatively stable temperature.
Visitors often have different ideas about the purpose of the huts: chicken or dog houses, mausoleums, compost heaps, undergraduate housing, or homes for leprechauns to name a few.
Keeping the huts in working condition is a main goal of our summer staff. Sometimes there are challenges from a flood, when an animal decides to make a home inside one, or when a lawnmower sideswipes one.
In the pictures to the right, you can see flood damage in the picture where the lower half of the electronics is covered with silt.
We think a groundhog or raccoon tunneled through the walls of one hut while a viewer can easily see the impressively large wasp nest in another hut.