Discovering Muons Videos!
Video notes: For a variety of reasons the detectors are not all identical, and so some detectors detect a greater fraction of the incoming muons than others. In this video we reported the count rates for detector number 11, although we brought three detectors to each site. Below is a table showing the count rates obtained for each detector for longer collection times, and the trend is the same as we expect for each detector.
|
Detector
|
Salt Mine (1200 ft below surface) |
Earth's Surface (at Airfield)
|
Hot Air Balloon (5800 ft above surface) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 0.039 counts/sec | 0.510 counts/sec | 0.731 counts/sec |
| 12 |
0.022 counts/sec |
0.384 counts/sec | 0.530 counts/sec |
| 13 | 0.044 counts/sec | 0.444 counts/sec | 0.715 counts/sec |
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