TIME OF FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS WITH SCINTILLATORS

Construction of the experiment § Theory and Metod We determine the mean speed of muons by using two flat, broad scintillator pads separated by a vertical height, D. By placing concidence requirements on the signals from these detectors, we restrict our data to only those particles (muons) that have passed through both detectors, and find the time lag between the top and bottom events, T. We can then calculate the muon mean speed through the relationship, D= 83 ± 1 cm International Workshop on Acceleration and Applications of Heavy Ions 11