| Description |
The decay of 1T mesons produced from high energy cosmic ray proton interactions with atmospheric nuclei has been assumed to be the main method of producing muons. In such a process, the longer the flight path of the 1T meson, the greater is the probability of its decay into a muon. Thus there should exist a relationship between the temperature of the atmosphere and the counted number of muons, since the flight path of the 1T mesons depends upon the atmospheric density which decreases as the temperature increases. To investigate this relationship, we assume that there is a linear relationship between the deviations from the average number of muons recorded and the deviations from the average temperature. If there is such a linear relationship, we can find the correlation coefficient r, which will tell us how much of the relationship between the two variables is linear. We can also obtain the temperature coefficient 0'0' which will tell us how much the deviations of the muons detected will increase for an increase in the temperature deviations. |
