Muon transfer from hot muonic hydrogen atoms to neon

Conference · Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:10142249

Jacot-Guillarmod, R ^[1]; Bailey, J M ^[2]; Beer, G A; Knowles, P E; Mason, G R; Olin, A ^[3]; Beveridge, J L; Marshall, G M; Brewer, J H; Forster, B M ^[4]; Huber, T M ^[5]; Kammel, P; Zmeskal, J ^[6]; Kunselman, A R ^[7]; Petitjean, C ^[8]

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1. Fribourg Univ. (Switzerland). Inst. de Physique
2. Liverpool Univ. (United Kingdom)
3. Victoria Univ., BC (Canada)
4. British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC (Canada)
5. Gustavus Adolphus Coll., St. Peter, MN (United States)
6. Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna (Austria). Inst. fuer Mittelenergiephysik
7. Wyoming Univ., Laramie, WY (United States)
8. Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)

A negative muon beam has been directed on adjacent solid layers of hydrogen and neon. Three targets differing by their deuterium concentration were investigated. Muonic hydrogen atoms can drift to the neon layer where the muon is immediately transferred. The time structure of the muonic neon X-rays follows the exponential law with a disappearance rate corresponding to the one of {mu}{sup {minus}p} atoms in each target. The rates {lambda}{sub pp{mu}} and {lambda}{sub pd} can be extracted.

• Research Organization: Wyoming Univ., Laramie, WY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON (Canada); Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern (Switzerland)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-87ER40333
• OSTI ID: 10142249
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40333-134; CONF-9206276-3; ON: DE93010250; IN: C00-2197-134
• Resource Relation: Conference: Muon `92 workshop,Uppsala (Sweden),28 Jun - 3 Jul 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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