Formation and disappearance rates of metastable muon-αlevels in high-pressure helium targets
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 41 (5) , 2352-2362
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.41.2352
Abstract
By considering the formation of excited muonic molecular ions [(μ−He)2S+ He]*+ in the triplet state a Σ+3, it is possible to explain the presence of metastable muonic helium levels at late times, observed when negative muons are stopped in a high-pressure (p≥6 atm) helium-gas target at room temperature. A comparison of the different experimental results with the present idea is reported, and measurements to obtain independent checks of this scheme are proposed.Keywords
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