Study on the cascade de-excitation processes in muonic hydrogen atom

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Muonic hydrogen is a bound state of a proton and a negative muon. It is an ideal system to study the bound-state QED effects and atomic scale phenomenon.When a muon stops in gaseous hydrogen, muonic hydrogen forms in highly excited states. The muonic hydrogen will be de-excited to the ground-state by several cascade processes such as the radiative transition, external Auger effect, Stark mixing, and Coulomb de-excitation. The proposed experiment aims to reveal the nature of cascade processes by measuring the muon spin polarization and the space-time distribution of muonic hydrogen. The pulsed negative muon beam irradiates a gas cell filled with hydrogen at 0.1 atm. A transverse magnetic field of 667 Gauss will be applied by using the magnet of CHRONUS spectrometer at RIKEN-RAL Port4. Decay electrons from muonic hydrogen atoms will be detected muon spin rotation will be observed.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1970003-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/103216586
Provenance
Creator Dr Yue Ma; Dr Masahio Iwasaki; Dr Katsu Ishida; Dr Sohtaro Kanda
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-11-14T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-18T09:30:00Z