The QuarkNet Online Cosmic Ray Detector

  

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Analyzing the Data

The second column is a two digit number. The "tens" bit is always 1 or 5. A "1" indicates that this event is a simple trigger; the cosmic ray passed right through the detector. A "5" indicates that the cosmic ray stopped in the detector. The "ones" bit is the sum of channel tags to indicate which counters or channels observed the cosmic ray. The top counter is tagged with the value 20, the second counter is 21, the third counter is 22.

The data to the right contain all of these event tags.

Column One Column Two Column Three Column Four


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Last Updated: 31 July 2002