PHY 4822: Muon physics documentation
- manufacturer information:
What you have to do:
- Read the manual
- set up the equipment following the procedure described in the manual
("Getting started", p. 29 - 30)
- do the "student exercises" (1) to (8) (p. 31 - 32 of the manual)
- use the fitter included in the software to determine the muon lifetime;
in addition, extract the data into a file and do the fitting yourself with
a program of your choice. Note that there are background events in addition to
the muon decays. The distribution of background events can be assumed to be
constant in time. Try to estimate the background and subtract it before fitting
to the decay time distribution. (Another possibility is to use a fitting program
that allows adding a background contribution to your model).
- quote some figure of merit fo the quality of your fit to the data
(e.g. a chi squared value (χ2)).
- using your measured muon lifetime, determine the Fermi coupling constant
GF.