Equation 1 · Part 3 · What a Particle Detector Actually Measures
Symbol A
What this part means
A occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
Its job in the formula
A occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
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The passage around this formula
Energy deposition. A calorimeter is deliberately destructive. It stops the particle, converts its energy into a shower of secondaries, and measures a signal proportional to the total ionising track length in that shower. Because the shower is stochastic, the relative resolution scales as the inverse square root of…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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