On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is NOT a measured ENERGY. If he also measured the energy, then he > could have solved for the particle mass and would have had a much easier > time identifying the particle. IF - you PRESUME that the particle is a > muon, then the energy of the muon would have been 1.4 MeV. > I see now. He's using time-of-flight spectrometry, something I have little familiarity with. He's saying that there are particles with flight times of 12-100 ns, and this is consistent with particles with energies of 2-14 MeV u-1, etc. It seems like his difficulties could be resolved if he used a second measurement technique. Eric
