Day 6:
Today we started off by testing how many muons we detected when the paddles were held at different angles. This is where we left off last time so we went up by smaller increments this time. Our results were valid with what we saw before because as the paddles were more horizontal, less muons were detected, showing that their path is vertical. Next, we began to test the scintillator fluid that was used back when Daniel Many started this project. His results showed that this fluid was not very efficient. We tested the fluid using different voltages for the middle paddle attached to the jar of fluid. For the few measurements we did, it seemed that the efficiency increased until it came to a plateau when increasing the voltage of the middle paddle. Lastly, we left the apparatus set up with voltage running to test the efficiency over night.
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