Critique of the Rowe 2001 Detector Efficiency Experiment

Understand

The Rowe 2001 experiment scattered photons from two prepared 9Be+ ions.

• Measurement of the scattered photons used a single photomultiplier tube (PMT).
• The resultant histograms appear to be a superposition of the individual ions' distribution, but that is not correct.
• The PMT records the convolution of the joint probability density of the ions.