218 research outputs found
Differential cross sections for muonic atom scattering from hydrogenic molecules
The differential cross sections for low-energy muonic hydrogen atom
scattering from hydrogenic molecules are directly expressed by the
corresponding amplitudes for muonic atom scattering from hydrogen-isotope
nuclei. The energy and angular dependence of these three-body amplitudes is
thus taken naturally into account in scattering from molecules, without
involving any pseudopotentials. Effects of the internal motion of nuclei inside
the target molecules are included for every initial rotational-vibrational
state. These effects are very significant as the considered three-body
amplitudes often vary strongly within the energy interval eV.
The differential cross sections, calculated using the presented method, have
been successfully used for planning and interpreting many experiments in
low-energy muon physics. Studies of nuclear capture in and the
measurement of the Lamb shift in atoms created in H gaseous targets
are recent examples.Comment: 21 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
X-ray emission during the muonic cascade in hydrogen
We report our investigations of X rays emitted during the muonic cascade in
hydrogen employing charge coupled devices as X-ray detectors. The density
dependence of the relative X-ray yields for the muonic hydrogen lines (K_alpha,
K_beta, K_gamma) has been measured at densities between 0.00115 and 0.97 of
liquid hydrogen density. In this density region collisional processes dominate
the cascade down to low energy levels. A comparison with recent calculations is
given in order to demonstrate the influence of Coulomb deexcitation.Comment: 5 pages, Tex, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letter
A Precision Measurement of Nuclear Muon Capture on 3He
The muon capture rate in the reaction mu- 3He -> nu + 3H has been measured at
PSI using a modular high pressure ionization chamber. The rate corresponding to
statistical hyperfine population of the mu-3He atom is (1496.0 +- 4.0) s^-1.
This result confirms the PCAC prediction for the pseudoscalar form factors of
the 3He-3H system and the nucleon.Comment: 13 pages, 6 PostScript figure
The explanation of unexpected temperature dependence of the muon catalysis in solid deuterium
It is shown that due to the smallness of the inelastic cross-section of the
-atoms scattering in the crystal lattice at sufficiently low temperatures
the -mesomolecules formation from the upper state of the hyperfine
structure starts earlier than the mesoatoms thermolization. It
explains an approximate constancy of the -mesomolecule formation rate in
solid deuterium.Comment: 6 pages, 2 jpeg-figure
Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant to Part-per-Million Precision
We report a measurement of the positive muon lifetime to a precision of 1.0
parts per million (ppm); it is the most precise particle lifetime ever
measured. The experiment used a time-structured, low-energy muon beam and a
segmented plastic scintillator array to record more than 2 x 10^{12} decays.
Two different stopping target configurations were employed in independent
data-taking periods. The combined results give tau_{mu^+}(MuLan) =
2196980.3(2.2) ps, more than 15 times as precise as any previous experiment.
The muon lifetime gives the most precise value for the Fermi constant:
G_F(MuLan) = 1.1663788 (7) x 10^-5 GeV^-2 (0.6 ppm). It is also used to extract
the mu^-p singlet capture rate, which determines the proton's weak induced
pseudoscalar coupling g_P.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Resonant Formation of Molecules in Deuterium: An Atomic Beam Measurement of Muon Catalyzed dt Fusion
Resonant formation of molecules in collisions of muonic tritium
() on D was investigated using a beam of atoms,
demonstrating a new direct approach in muon catalyzed fusion studies. Strong
epithermal resonances in formation were directly revealed for the
first time. From the time-of-flight analysis of fusion
events, a formation rate consistent with times the theoretical prediction was obtained. For the largest
peak at a resonance energy of eV, this corresponds to a rate
of s, more than an order of magnitude larger
than those at low energies.Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Improved Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant
The mean life of the positive muon has been measured to a precision of 11 ppm
using a low-energy, pulsed muon beam stopped in a ferromagnetic target, which
was surrounded by a scintillator detector array. The result, tau_mu =
2.197013(24) us, is in excellent agreement with the previous world average. The
new world average tau_mu = 2.197019(21) us determines the Fermi constant G_F =
1.166371(6) x 10^-5 GeV^-2 (5 ppm). Additionally, the precision measurement of
the positive muon lifetime is needed to determine the nucleon pseudoscalar
coupling g_P.Comment: As published version (PRL, July 2007
Measurement of Muon Capture on the Proton to 1% Precision and Determination of the Pseudoscalar Coupling g_P
The MuCap experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute has measured the rate L_S
of muon capture from the singlet state of the muonic hydrogen atom to a
precision of 1%. A muon beam was stopped in a time projection chamber filled
with 10-bar, ultra-pure hydrogen gas. Cylindrical wire chambers and a segmented
scintillator barrel detected electrons from muon decay. L_S is determined from
the difference between the mu- disappearance rate in hydrogen and the free muon
decay rate. The result is based on the analysis of 1.2 10^10 mu- decays, from
which we extract the capture rate L_S = (714.9 +- 5.4(stat) +- 5.1(syst)) s^-1
and derive the proton's pseudoscalar coupling g_P(q^2_0 = -0.88 m^2_mu) = 8.06
+- 0.55.Comment: Updated figure 1 and small changes in wording to match published
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