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Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 27, 1970 Physics students build muon finder Particle telescopes to detect high-energy muons that pene trate hundreds of feet into the earth’s crust are being built by A&M physics seniors as a lab project. Their telescopes are “little brothers” of 9V£ and 17-ton spec trometer telescopes constructed and operated at the university’s Research Annex under U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Re search support. Heart of the Physics 425 “sen ior lab” device is a student-built Geiger counter containing a gas mixture that is ionized by the passage of a muon. Three of the Geiger counters— student made at about 70 cents each (commercially purchasable starting at $85)—are used in connection with standard physics lab equipment to detect the par ticles. Muons are “born” high in the earth’s atmosphere when incom ing cosmic rays collide with air molecules. Pions and other class es of particles also originate through the process. A&M students use burnt out fluorescent light tubes and other easily - accessible materials in constructing the particle tele scopes in the physics lab in structed by Dr. Philip J. Green AGGIES! Remember the First Edition’s Great Concert last year? Now hear them AGAIN! SPECIAL ATTRACTION TAMU presents KENNY ROGERS and the FIRST EDITION Friday Night, November 13, 1970 — 8:00 p. m. G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM RESERVED SEATS A&M Students or Dates $2.50 All Others $3.00 GENERAL ADMISSION A&M Student or Date $1.50 Other Students $2.00 Patrons $2.50 Tickets and information MSC Student Program Office 845-4671 Town Hall Series presents for the ARKANSAS WEEKEND THE “LOVE IS BLUE” SOUND Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra “Color him gold.”—Time Magazine G. ROLLIE WHITE COLISEUM Friday Nighd, October 30, 1970, 8:00 p. m. Town Hall Season Ticket Holders and A&M Students FREE A&M Student Dates $2.00 Other Students $2.50 Patrons $3.50 Reserved Seats A&M Students and Dates $2.25, $2.50 All Others $4.50, $5.00 Tickets and Information MSC Student Program Office — 845-4671. and Dr. Nelson M. Duller. “Lots of things can be done with this equipment,” Duller said. “Density flux of particles, absorbtion characteristics, statis tics of random events and time resolution determinations can be made.” Dubbed “rocking chair” spec trometer telescopes, the large versions of the machines at the Research Annex show the pass age of the muon as a tiny light ning trail in three 36 by 36 by eight-inch spark chambers con taining a helium-isobutane gas mixture. Heavy magnets cause the muon path to be bent, the amount leading through calcula tion to muon energy in electron volts. The annex spectrometer tele scopes can be oriented at differ ent angles with respect to the horizon, for flux variation deter minations. Duller pointed out that the student models set up in labs in the physics building, discern and count muons by automatically re cording pulses from the Geiger tubes on scalers. Also used in the setup are amplifiers, power sup ply, oscilloscope and logic cir cuits. Each of the three stacked one and a half by eight-inch tubes must be penetrated by a muon for it to be recorded. The phys ics professor said the particles pass at the average rate of about two per second through an area the size of a person’s head. The particles pass unaffected through the atmosphere and building construction to reach the detecting machines. All 19 students in the lab are making counters and the ones that “are working at all are working well,” Duller said. “It amounts to looking at a microscopic thing with a macro scopic gadget,” he added. “We know the device is sensitive to the muon particle because the counter assembly as a unit does not respond when a gamma radi ation source is introduced,” he added. Seniors Coy Morris of Waco and Milton Lumpkin of San An tonio consider the project highly appropriate and interesting. “In other labs, textbook ex periments are conducted for known results,” Lumpkin said. “We have more freedom in this lab course.” High-energy muons from the edge of space are detected by this spectrometer telescope built by Coy Morris (left) and Milton Lumpkin (right) Dr. N. M. Duller (center), who has built larger ones for A&M, looks on. Distinguished status awarded air cadets Distinguished Air Force Cadet status has been accorded 22 Tex as A&M seniors, Col. Keith C. Hanna announced today. The professor of aerospace studies noted DAFC indicates the cadet has exhibited qualities de sired by the Air Force in its ca reer officers. By making the distinguished cadet list, the senior may be designated a Distinguished Mili tary Graduate and be commis sioned in the Regular Air Force upon graduation. With the DAFC and a reserve commission, he may apply for a regular commis sion after entering active duty. The 22 cadets were selected on the “whole man” basis from among 129 Air Force ROTC cadet seniors. Military subjects pro ficiency, leadership qualities, dis ciplinary records, scholastic standing and extracurricular par ticipation are considered. Twenty per cent of the gradu ating class was selected under the quota system. Three cadets to graduate in December were designated DAFC last spring. Wearing the blue and silver ribbon of DFAC on their uniform are Thomas C. Bain Jr., deputy corps commander, and John C. Souders, Squadron 13 commander of Dallas; John M. Braun, squad ron 13 cadet, Austin. Of San Antonio, Charles V. Brown, 1st Wing commander; David E. Frost, Squadron 12 commander; Lonnie D. Roberts, Squadron 3 commander; Roy E. Sewall, Squadron 10 commander, and Michael L. Wiebe, Squadron 8 member. Also, Dennis K. 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