Detection of hot muonic hydrogen atoms emitted in vacuum using x-rays

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6430234

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 ^[4]; Brewer, J H; Forster, B M ^[5]; Huber, T M ^[6]; Kammel, P

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1. Fribourg Univ. (Switzerland)
2. Liverpool Univ. (United Kingdom)
3. Victoria Univ., BC (Canada)
4. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
5. British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC (Canada)
6. Gustavus Adolphus Coll., St. Peter, MN (United States)

Negative muons are stopped in solid layers of hydrogen and neon. Muonic hydrogen atoms can drift to the neon layer where the muon is immediately transferred. It was found that the time structure of the muonic neon X-rays follows the exponential law where the rate is the same as the disappearance rate of [mu][sup -]p atoms. The pp[mu]-formation rate and the muon transfer rate to deuterium are deduced.

• Research Organization: Wyoming Univ., Laramie, WY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; CANSERC; SNSF; 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: 6430234
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40333-137; CONF-9204241--1; ON: DE93010253
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

663620* -- Physics of Radiations Other Than Neutrons-- (1992-)
664500 -- Special Atoms & Molecules-- (1992-)
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ATOMS
DATA
DEUTERIUM
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FERMIONS
FLUIDS
GASES
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
INFORMATION
ISOTOPES
LEPTONS
LIFETIME
LIGHT NUCLEI
MUONIC ATOMS
MUONS
MUONS MINUS
NEON
NONMETALS
NUCLEI
NUMERICAL DATA
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
RARE GASES
SLOWING-DOWN
SPECTRA
STABLE ISOTOPES
TEMPERATURE RANGE
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0000-0013 K
X-RAY SPECTRA