Ok, so you have all possible tracks going through the first detector to a single point on the second detector (effectively a pyramid) but what about the tracks that hit the second detector outside of the point?
I am trying to work out the solid angle acceptance of a muon telescope. The telescope is comprised of two aligned square detector panels (of size x squared metres) set at a distance apart of L metres. The way I was initially working it out (by using the solid angle of a pyramid of base x...
Yeah that's what I am after pretty much.
The number of muons at a specific energy is described by a spectrum (which is dependednt on what angle they arrive from the zenith). I figured that because the dE/dX is pretty flat between 1-100GeV (it's about 2MeV/g cm^2), then as muons lose energy...
Thanks for the reply. I do have the equivalent data for the various materials I'm looking at. I have worked out stopping power. I have radiative loss data (enough to work out the linear approximation for energies above the muon critical energy) for all the materials. I have range as a...
I am looking at muons being lost as they travel through a concrete bunker (with various things inside). The minimum energy (mean) for a muon to go through the walls is about 1.82GeV, and for the stuff inside (flakes of magnesium) it is 2.7GeV. For a piece of heavy metal it is 0.13GeV (it's...
I have a problem with units...
I have been looking at energy loss of muons in matter (from both ionizations and radition processes like bremsstrahlung). I have used an equation for the mean energy loss (for a muon of specified energy in a specified material) which gives an answer in units of...
Thanks for your reply.
They are cosmic-ray muons so I'm not worried about energies below ~0.1GeV (which I think is well above the lower limit of application). I will be looking at energies as high as I can go without having to worry too much about radiation losses (which I know is...
Can someone help me? I want to use the Bethe-Bloch equation for stopping power of muons. I have put it all together but it is coming out with stupid answers (like 10^-64). I have kept the units consistently SI. Any ideas?
The muon energy loss equation (at high energies) is:
-dE/dx = a(E) + b(E)E
where a(E) represents the ionization losses (Bethe equation), and b(E) represents radiative losses (bremsstrahlung, pair production, photo-nuclear).
From what I have read, at high energies for high-Z materials...
I have been looking at the flux of muons (as secondary cosmic ray particles) at the Earth's surface as a function of both energy and angle from the zenith. From what I have read, the flux follows a squared cos theta relationship with angle from the zenith and several attempts have been made to...