STATISTICAL THEORY OF COINCIDENCE EXPERIMENTS

Abstract

The consistent use of a general statistical theory makes possible the elimination of ambiguities from the interpretation of coincidence experiments. It is shown that measurements of time delays and disintegration rates of experimental coincidence curves alone. For the treatment of the time-resolving properties of coincidence equipment, two characteristic time magnitudes are needed, one of which is a straight-forward generalization of the old definition of the resolving time. The two time magnitudes allow the approximate determination of random time lags. The general theory also provides a strict definition of the coincidence efficiency.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1953
Accession Number
AD0022378

Entities

People

  • H. Kanner
  • V. P. Henri
  • Z. Bayy

Organizations

  • George Washington University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Circuits
  • Coincidence Counting
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Dead Time
  • Detectors
  • Discriminators
  • Disintegration
  • Efficiency
  • Equations
  • Intervals
  • Measurement
  • Numbers
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Probability
  • Radiation
  • Time Intervals

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Theoretical Analysis.