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Final Presentation. By: Melissa Sussmann and Brooke Cosko. The Experiment. A muon lifetime experiment uses three or four scintillators to create an enclosed volume Lower energy muons are trapped and when they decay an electron leaves through one of the scintillators.
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Final Presentation By: Melissa Sussmann and Brooke Cosko
The Experiment • A muon lifetime experiment uses three or four scintillators to create an enclosed volume • Lower energy muons are trapped and when they decay an electron leaves through one of the scintillators
Wires are not consistently colored • Poor soldering job
The Bases • Hamamatsu HC123-01 • Multiplies voltage for PMT
Advice to Take Next Year • Use a vice, especially when testing high voltage on the bases. • Set the potentiometer in the LBB to 13 volts. • There should be counts of 1 muon per square centimeter per minute. This translates to 21 hertz from our large scintillators. • Give the experiment 15 minutes to warm up before taking data. • When taking data, take it all at once, without breaks in between, because your results may change from one time frame to the next.