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Investigating cosmic rays: Determining the rate of muon
- 1 Shanghai High School International Division
- 2 University of Minnesota
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Abstract
In this article, we demonstrate the investigation process of the determination of muon rate. During our investigation, we used four Cosmic Watches to trace variation of various physical quantities that would help with our further discovery. After cleaning the data, plotting, and calculating the number of muon and the actual working time of the detectors, we were able to determine muon rate, which are 0.089±0.004 Hz and 0.082±0.005 Hz respectively for the left two and the right two Cosmic Watches. Then, two of the four Cosmic Watches were placed at a larger distance between each other, the new rates obtained are 0.109±0.005 Hz and 0.102±0.005 Hz accordingly for the left and right two detectors. The specific setup of the Cosmic Watches is included later in this paper. By doing this, we discovered the inverse relationship between the rate of muon rate and the distance between the detectors, which may indicate the direction of cosmic ray pathways.
Keywords
Muon detection, Cosmic Watch, Muon rate, Cosmic ray.
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Xiao,V.;Min,Q. (2024). Investigating cosmic rays: Determining the rate of muon. Theoretical and Natural Science,53,1-9.
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