Muon transfer from hot muonic hydrogen atoms to neon

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

OSTI ID:6561996

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

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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)

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: 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: 6561996
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40333-134; CONF-9206276--3; ON: DE93010250
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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664500* -- Special Atoms & Molecules-- (1992-)
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ATOMS
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
DECAY
DEUTERIUM
ELEMENTS
HALF-LIFE
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN 1
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MUONIC ATOMS
NONMETALS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
RADIOISOTOPES
SPECTRA
STABLE ISOTOPES
X-RAY SPECTRA
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES