Ionization energy loss of muons in a plastic scintillator
- 1 September 1968
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 1 (5) , 584-587
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/1/5/312
Abstract
A study has been made of the ionization energy loss of cosmic-ray muons in a plastic scintillator (Ne 102a) over the momentum range 03-120 GeV/c. The results have been combined with those of Crispin and Hayman for a similar material, and together give no support for the decrease expected from the radiative correction theory of Tsytovitch, the measured change in energy loss above 10 GeV/c being +(12±07)%, compared with a predicted reduction of 4-8%. A least-squares fit to the most probable energy loss values above 2 GeV/c gives a rate of rise of (27±33)%, a value not inconsistent with the constancy predicted by the theory of Sternheimer.Keywords
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