EXPERIMENTS ON THE ABSORPTION OF POLARIZED NEGATIVE MU MESONS BY C$sup 1$$sup 2$
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4067354
S>Experiments performed in an effort to supply evidence for the universality of the V-A theory in weak interactions and for the law of conservation of leptons are described. In the first part, the production rate of B/sup 12/ by the absorption of negative mu mesons in carbon was measured. From the amplitudes of the muon decay curve and the boron decay curve, ths rate was calculated to be (5.8 plus or minus 1.3) x lO/sup 3/ sec/sup -1/ in agreement with the hypothesis of a universal V-A theory. In the second part, an attempt was made to measure the helicity of negative mu mesons by stopping longitudinally polarized muons in a carbon target and observing the electron asymmetry in the beta -decay of the spin-1 B/sup 12/. The results of this part were inconclusive, a consequence attributed to a short boron thermal relaxation time. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Carnegie Inst. of Tech., Pittsburgh
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-013666
- OSTI ID:
- 4067354
- Report Number(s):
- NYO-9280
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ABSORPTION
ANISOTROPY
BETA DECAY
BETA PARTICLES
BORON 12
CARBON
CARBON 12
DECAY
EFFICIENCY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
GROUP THEORY
INTERACTIONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLE
LEPTONS
MATHEMATICS
MATRICES
MEASURED VALUES
MOMENTUM
MUONS
MUONS-MINUS
NUCLEAR MODELS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEAR THEORY
NUCLEI
PHYSICS
POLARIZATION
PRODUCTION
RELAXATION
SPECTROSCOPY
SPIN
TARGETS
VECTORS
ANISOTROPY
BETA DECAY
BETA PARTICLES
BORON 12
CARBON
CARBON 12
DECAY
EFFICIENCY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
GROUP THEORY
INTERACTIONS
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLE
LEPTONS
MATHEMATICS
MATRICES
MEASURED VALUES
MOMENTUM
MUONS
MUONS-MINUS
NUCLEAR MODELS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEAR THEORY
NUCLEI
PHYSICS
POLARIZATION
PRODUCTION
RELAXATION
SPECTROSCOPY
SPIN
TARGETS
VECTORS