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Today we are continuing our plateauing of the scintillators.  For this next test, we are replateauing the bottom scintillator but with its threshold at 225 mV instead of 275 like before while keeping the top scintillator at 275 mV.  We are decreasing the threshold because we are still not seeing the count rate that we expect, which is about 8 coincidence counts per minute.  Since the count rate in our past experiments is too low, it can be deduced that the threshold is too high and therefore we are not reading some of the cosmic rays that pass through.
 
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This next data set is from the replateau of the top scintillator with both scinitillators thresholds set at 225 mV.

Revision as of 15:17, 17 August 2007

Today we are continuing our plateauing of the scintillators. For this next test, we are replateauing the bottom scintillator but with its threshold at 225 mV instead of 275 like before while keeping the top scintillator at 275 mV. We are decreasing the threshold because we are still not seeing the count rate that we expect, which is about 8 coincidence counts per minute. Since the count rate in our past experiments is too low, it can be deduced that the threshold is too high and therefore we are not reading some of the cosmic rays that pass through.

Plateau of Bottom Scintillator
Time HV on top scint. HV on bottom scint. Singles Count (on top) Coinc. Counts Coinc. per minute
30 min 1300 1450
30 min 1300 1400
30 min 1300 1350
30 min 1300 1300 3164 68 2.27
90 min 1300 1250 3121 77 2.57
30 min 1300 1200 3182 47 1.57
30 min 1300 1150 3100 16 0.533
30 min 1300 1100 3141 3 0.1

This next data set is from the replateau of the top scintillator with both scinitillators thresholds set at 225 mV.