September 4, 2007 - Cosmic Telescope

Plateau Zeroing
Time Start	Time Stop	Time elapsed (min.)	Thresholds on both Scintillators	Singles Count (on top)	Coinc. Counts	Coinc. per minute	Angle measure
1:35 pm on 8/31	1:10 pm on 9/04	5725 min	225	626816	1654	.2889	75 degrees

Time Start	Time Stop	Time elapsed (hour)	Singles Count (on top)	Coinc. Counts	Coinc. per hour	[math]\sqrt{N}[/math]	[math](x_i-\bar{x})^2[/math]
1:20 pm	2:20 pm	1	5694	127	127	11.3	121
2:20 pm	3:20 pm	1	4896	136	136	11.6	4
3:20 pm	4:20 pm	1	4655	151	151	12.2	169

Mean [math]\mu[/math] = 138 counts per hour

Instrumental Uncertainty =[math]\sigma = \sqrt{\frac{\sum (x_i - \bar{x})^2}{N-1}} = 12.12[/math] counts per hour

Your instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma ([math]\sqrt{138}= 11.7[/math]) counts per hour.

The cosmic ray telescope sounting experiment appears to be following Poisson statistics. See Statistics for Experimentalists