Luminosity

Both Griffiths QM (P397) and our old classical mechanics bok (p365) describe luminosity (which I just knew as intensity or flux density). L=number of particles per unit area per unit time. We discussed it last semester when talking about scattering cross sections.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 17:40.

One Response to “Luminosity”

  1. arno says:
    February 3, 2010 at 19:02

    You can find further details how the luminosity for the LHC is defined here.

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