1. Muon transfer from deuterium to helium
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Augsburger, M., Ackerbauer, P., Breunlich, W. H., Cargnelli, M., Chatellard, D., Egger, J. -P., Gartner, B., Hartmann, F. J., Huot, O., Jacot-Guillarmod, R., Kammel, P., King, R., Knowles, P., Kosak, A., Lauss, B., Marton, J., Muehlbauer, M., Mulhauser, F., Petitjean, C., Prymas, W., Schaller, L. A., Schellenberg, L., Schneuwly, H., Tresch, S., von Egidy, T., and Zmeskal, J.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
We report on an experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland measuring x rays from muon transfer from deuterium to helium. Both the ground state transfer via the exotic dmu3,4He* molecules and the excited state transfer from mud* were measured. The use of CCD detectors allowed x rays from 1.5 keV to 11 keV to be detected with sufficient energy resolution to separate the transitions to different final states in both deuterium and helium. The x-ray peaks of the dmu3He* and dmu4He* molecules were measured with good statistics. For the D2+3He mixture, the peak has its maximum at E_dmu3He = 6768 +- 12 eV with FWHM Gamma_dmu3He = 863 +- 10 eV. Furthermore the radiative branching ratio was found to be kappa_dmu3He = 0.301 +- 0.061. For the D_2+4He mixture, the maximum of the peak lies at E_dmu4He = 6831 +- 8 eV and the FWHM is Gamma_dmu4He = 856 +- 10 eV. The radiative branching ratio is kappa_dmu4He = 0.636 +- 0.097. The excited state transfer is limited by the probability to reach the deuterium ground state, q_1s. This coefficient was determined for both mixtures: q^3He_1s = 68.9 +- 2.7% and q^4He_1s = 90.1 +- 1.5., Comment: 9 pages, 11 figures
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- 2003
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