Helicity of the Electron and Positron in Muon Decay

15 December 1958

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B

Vol. 112 (6) , 2061-2071
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.112.2061

Abstract

The helicity of the electron and positron from muon decay has been measured by determining the sense of circular polarization of their bremsstrahlung by the method of absorption in iron magnetized against or along the direction of motion of the particles. The positron is found to be right-handed and the electron left-handed.

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