Intermediate & Advanced Laboratory

"Experiment is the sole judge of scientific 'truth'"
- Richard Feynman -

Gamma-Gamma Correlation

High Energy Physics
Reductionism in hand, the particle physicists march forward. With goals so surely to be attained, and so often exactly achieved, the standard model is a wonder.

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In this experiment you will explore the decay of cobalt-60 into two gamma rays. You will probe the angular correlation of these rays' trajectories as well as the intrinsic nuclear spin of the Co itself.

Top: Signal Amplifiers, Pulse Generator. Middle: TAC's and TSCA's. Bottom: High voltage for the PMT's.

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Both the fixed and radially mobile PMT's. The source is not present, but would be placed in the center of the table.

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