B Cosmic Ray Muons: Finding Experimental Data for Special Relativity

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Hi everyone,

I'm current working on a project about special relativity, and i was thinking writing about the cosmic ray muons. But where do i, as a high school student get raw data of cosmic ray muons?
I have searched quite a bit, but it doesn't seems like data like that is public and easy accesible, as astronomical data.

Regards Nicklas
 
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Have you tried looking for the Mt Washington muon experiment?
Maybe also under "mu meson"?

Which data exactly do you want?
 
Here is a link to a classic article by Rossi and Hall. It has summary data from their experiments.

http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EP/rossi_pr_59_223_41.pdf

Here is a link to an online simulator from the King's Center for Visualization in Science that let's you re-run the Rossi and Hall experiment.

http://www.kcvs.ca/site/projects/specialRelativity.html
 
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