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)

110.039 counts/sec0.510 counts/sec0.731 counts/sec
12

0.022 counts/sec

0.384 counts/sec0.530 counts/sec
130.044 counts/sec0.444 counts/sec0.715 counts/sec

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