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Insights from Muon Lifetime Experiment: Techniques and Best Practices

This presentation by Melissa Sussmann and Brooke Cosko details a muon lifetime experiment utilizing scintillators to measure muon decay. The setup involves an enclosed volume where low-energy muons are trapped and their decays produce detectable electrons within the scintillators. Key points include issues with wire consistency due to poor soldering, technical specifications of the Hamamatsu HC123-01 base, and essential advice for conducting the experiment successfully, such as proper setup of potentiometers, data collection strategies, and the importance of allowing warm-up time.

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Insights from Muon Lifetime Experiment: Techniques and Best Practices

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  1. Final Presentation By: Melissa Sussmann and Brooke Cosko

  2. 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

  3. Wires are not consistently colored • Poor soldering job

  4. The Bases • Hamamatsu HC123-01 • Multiplies voltage for PMT

  5. Plateau Beta

  6. 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.

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