Physics 180F Information

0. The 180F lab manual, version 2.4 by Bill Slater (41 pages)

1. Other basic documents

• Cosmic Ray physics notes from Harold Ticho (founded the UCLA High Energy Physics group in 1949!)
• Fairly standard paperback statistics book "Introduction to Error Analysis" by Taylor.
• The Particle Data Group at LBL, with all information about particles as well as useful summaries of particle interactions with matter, particle detectors, and statistics.
• Perkins' textbook on particle physics, perhaps the most accessible to undergraduates, semi-historical, a little dated.
• Griffiths' textbook on particle physics, a more rigorous introduction to particle physics for undergraduates.
• The Ideas of Particle Physics, a non-rigorous introduction to particle physics that gets into Grand Unified Theories, Superstrings, and other topics well beyond the scope of 180F!

2. Data-taking procedures

• Determining optimum HV for phototubes

3. Analysis of data using ROOT

• Pedram's ROOT tutorial
• ROOT Primer
• ROOT cheat sheet
• ROOT practice assignment
• The main ROOT web site at CERN, for very detailed and comprehensive information.

4. Statistics

• Statistics java applet

5. Detailed electronics manuals

a. The μ+ experiment

• Jorway 1880B scaler
• LeCroy 4608C 8 channel discriminator (~25 pages!)
• LeCroy 465 4-fold coincidence unit
• LeCroy 222 dual gate generator

b. The μ− experiment

• Jorway 1880B scaler
• Phillips 776 10x amplifier
• LeCroy 4608C 8 channel discriminator (~25 pages!)
• LeCroy 465 4-fold coincidence unit
• LeCroy 222 gual gate generator
• LeCroy 365 4-fold logic unit
• LeCroy 4208 8 channel TDC
• P-184 UCLA-built TDC

c. The multiple scattering experiment

• Jorway 1880B scaler
• LeCroy 623B discriminator (~25 pages!)
• LeCroy 365AL 4-fold majority logic unit
• LeCroy 465 4-fold coincidence unit
• LeCroy 222 dual gate generator