Laboratorio di Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare - a.a. 2008-2009

Measurement of the muon lifetime

• material from PDG , The Review of Particle Physics, C. Amsler et al., Physics Letters B667 (2008) 1
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Probability
  • Statistics
  • MonteCarlo Techniques
  
  
• links to papers
  • N. Nereson and N. Rossi, Experimental Determination of the Disintegration Curve of Mesotrons, 1942.
  • N. Nereson and B. Rossi, Further Measurements on the Disintegration Curve of Mesotrons, 1943.
  • B. Rossi, Interpretation of Cosmic-Ray Phenomena, 1948.
  • M. Conversi, E. Pancini, and O. Piccioni, On the Disintegration of Negative Mesons, 1947.
  • D. F. Measday, The nuclear physics of muon capture, 2001.
  
  
• other links
  • The FAST Experiment
  • The MULAN Experiment
  
  
• selection of slides 1, 2