Experiments from the 3/4^th Year labs relevant to PHY357S

 Mass Spectrometer

• ionization cross sections (Lecture 4)

 Germanium Spectrometer

• electromagnetic calorimeter (Lecture 5)
• radioactivity, beta decays (Lecture 19)

 Compton Scattering

• photon cross sections (Lecture 5)
• coupling of a gauge boson to a fundamental fermion (Lecture 14)

 High Energy Physics

• bubble chambers (Lecture 6)
• photon interactions (Lecture 5)
• strangeness
• hadronic interactions
• mesons and baryons

 Electron spin resonance

• electrons are point particles (Lecture7)

 Nuclear magnetic resonance

• protons are not point particles (Lecture7)

 Muon Lifetime

• archetypical weak decay, defines G_F (Lecture 19)