Light particles do exists, but take note that they are not classical particles.
All fundamental particles are point particles, this includes for example electrons or quarks, the building blocks of protons and neutrons, or photons ("light particles").
So they all have the same size, none...
The detector in question works at the lower detection limit (which is usuall given by the background noise, correct ?)
Deadtime is an saturation effect as far as I understand, playing a role at hight intensities.
Basic setup is a photo-detector coupeled with an amplifier.
Questions is what are possible sources of non-linear behaviour ?
Now, one possible source is obviously the amplification of background noise, but what other sources are there ?
Alternatively could one give me a book or website to...
How do I estimate the standart deviation for the mean average of an poisson-distribution ?
The mean average was estimated with the maximum-likelihood method by graphing the likelihood in dependence of the mean average, then just reading off the value for which the likelihood became maximal.
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Then please explain interference effects under the assumption that photons are particles.
After you have done so explain the fact that photons have (AFAIK) a spin of 1*.
*this can actually not be explained by assuming that photons are particles or waves but rather only by assuming that they...
According to quantum mechanics a photon is neither a wave nor an particle, it has some properties which can be likened under specific circumstances to the properties of the classical objects wave and it has some properties which can be likened to the properties of the classical object wave, but...