Using the CASSY system, the experiment P6.4.2.1 determines multiple pulse counts n triggered in a Geiger-Müller counter tube by radioactive radiation over a selectable gate time Δt. After a total of N counting runs, the frequencies h(n) are determined at which precisely n pulses were counted, and displayed as histograms. For comparision, the evaluation program calculates the mean value µ and the standard deviation
of the measured intensity distribution h(n) as well as the Poisson distribution wµ(N). For higher mean values μ the Poisson distribution develops into a Gaussian distribution.