Assignment 7

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Can we detect simultaneous coincidences?


Using 4 scintillators you measured the rate of cosmic rays at one location and the rate of simultaneous coincidences at two different locations.

Perhaps include:

1. Your raw data.

2. An appropriate graphical representation of your data.

3. Discussion of the results.


Some questions you might want to incorporate into your writeup:

1. Were there coincidences between all 4 counters? What does this tell us?

2. What happened when the 4 counters were moved apart? What did you expect?

2. What happened to the observed rate of coincidences between 2 stationary counters? What does this tell us about the results for the 4 counter coincidences?

Write-up

Please include the sections described in Assignment 2.  As we discussed, everyone should make every effort to post their own work.

Experiment write-up due: 3/31/2006