Half-Life/Mean Lifetime
Why Relativity?
Submitted by: [ShaneWood] | Posted:
Students will compare classical predictions to real-world data to introduce special relativity.
Mean Lifetime Part 3: MINERvA
Submitted by: [kcecire] | Posted:
Students collect data from muons which decay in the MINERvA detector in the Fermilab NuMi beamline to understand particle decay and determine the muon lifetime.
Mean Lifetime Part 1: Dice
Submitted by: [kcecire] | Posted:
Rolling dice serves as the model for decaying particles.
Mean Lifetime Part 2: Cosmic Muons
Submitted by: [kcecire] | Posted:
Students learn how physicists measure muon lifetime.