Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MUONS

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4030545

A multiplicative selection rule for mu meson-electron transitions is proposed. A "muon parity" = -1 is considered for the muon and its neutnino, while the "muon parity" for all other particles is +1. The selection mile then states that (-1) exp STAno. of initial (-1) parity particles! = (-1) exp STAno. of final (-1) parity particles!. Several reactions that are forbidden by an additive law but allowed by the multiplicative law are suggested; these reactions include mu + -- s+ + nu /sub mu / + nu /sub e/, e/sup -/ + e- -- mu - + mu - , and muonium -- antimu onium ( mu /sup +/e -- mu /sup -/e/sup +/). An intermediate-boson hypothesis is suggested. (T.F.H.)

Research Organization:
Columbia Univ., New York; University of California, Berkeley
Sponsoring Organization:
US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
NSA Number:
NSA-15-016352
OSTI ID:
4030545
Report Number(s):
TID-14982; AFOSR-1948
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Testing the muon number conservation law in anti nu/sub. mu. / + e-. Technical report No. 76-117
Technical Report · Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1976 · OSTI ID:7272587

Testing the muon-number conservation law in nu-bar/sub mu/+e/sup -/ interactions at high energies. [Above 400 GeV, muon decay spectra, Lagrangian]
Journal Article · Mon Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 1976 · Phys. Rev. Lett.; (United States) · OSTI ID:7147468

FURTHER REMARKS ON THE PROPOSED $mu$-e SELECTION RULE
Journal Article · Tue Jan 31 23:00:00 EST 1961 · Nuovo Cimento (Italy) Divided into Nuovo Cimento A and Nuovo Cimento B · OSTI ID:4028385