Friday,+September+13th+2012

Today at around 3:45 PM, I went to Quarknet with John, Paige, and Alex, where Alex and I worked on histograms and talked with Dr. L about muons. When muon particles colide they scatter into two opposite directions, one with a positive charge and one with a negative charge. The particles we looked at had a not completely opposite angle, suggesting that the original particle had directional momentum when it collided with the other particle. I fiddled with the histogram program, making the graph rediculously large, then again to make it extremely small. I messed with the Y log button and I zoomed in on several portions of the graph. The graph shows the number of events when compared to the mass of the muon particles. Once everything was done I left at about 5:15, shortly after everyone else had left Quarknet.