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Testing the validity of the Lorentz factor

Popular Physics 2018-08-01 v1 Physics Education

Abstract

Our proposed experiment aimed to test the validity of the Lorentz factor with two methods: The time of flight (TOF) of various particles at different momenta and the decay rate of pions at different momenta. Due to the high sensitivity required for the second method the results were inconclusive, therefore we report only on the results of the first method.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1712.08451,
  title  = {Testing the validity of the Lorentz factor},
  author = {H Broomfield and J Hirst and Theodoros Vafeiadis and Markus Joos and A Singh and M Raven and T K Chung and J Harrow and T Kwok and J Li and K Tsui and A Tsui and R Perkins and H Mandelstam and D Khoo and J Southwell and J Martin-Halls and D Townsend and H Watson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08451},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

The authors of the paper are winners of the CERN Beamline for Schools <https://voisins.cern/en/offre/bl4s> 2016 competition. To be submitted to the journal Physics Education

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