| Online Muon Capture and Decay Experiment |
| Megan Alexander, Daniel Miner, | |
| Wojtek Skulski, Frank Wolfs | |
| University of Rochester | |
| Work funded by a grant from the APS WYP 2005 and a grant from the NSF. | |
| Overview |
| Purpose: | ||
| To capture and share data from cosmic muons, making a ÒrealÓ physics experiment accessible to the public. | ||
| In this talk: | ||
| Experimental details | ||
| Website tour | ||
| Motivation |
| Time dilation (special relativity) | |
| Classic experiment, popular in advanced physics labs | |
| Outreach |
| Experiment Setup |
| DDC-8 |
| Developed by Wojtek Skulski. | |
| Typical Muon Signals |
| Stopping Muons: |
| Web View: Waveforms |
| Web View:Energy Spectra |
| Downloadable Data |
| Downloadable Data |
| View from Excel, MATLAB |
| Summary and Conclusion |
| Physics outreach enabled by hardware, software, web tools. | |
| Total unique visitors: | |