Study of Life Time of Muons Author: Frank Researcher: Frank Nati
Data Source Detector ID 6818 from Gleenbrook North High School. Data: Sep 19th 2015
Verification Steps
Theoretical Ananysis Equation for decay: Cosmicray e-lab program: x-axis: t y-axis: dN/dt Take the differential form:
Cosmicray e-lab result
Revision---Matlab Input data into Excel then into Matlab
Revision---Matlab Draw a histogram
Revision---Matlab Draw best-fitting line---change equations Define y= , then , we take ln on both sides:
Revision---Matlab Y=-0.38*x+2.7
Calculation = -0.38 = 2.63 μs
Verification Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon
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