A Precision Measurement of Nuclear Muon Capture on 3He
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-09-12 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
The muon capture rate in the reaction mu- 3He -> nu + 3H has been measured at PSI using a modular high pressure ionization chamber. The rate corresponding to statistical hyperfine population of the mu-3He atom is (1496.0 +- 4.0) s^-1. This result confirms the PCAC prediction for the pseudoscalar form factors of the 3He-3H system and the nucleon.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9708487,
title = {A Precision Measurement of Nuclear Muon Capture on 3He},
author = {P. Ackerbauer and D. V. Balin and V. M. Baturin and G. A. Beer and W. H. Breunlich and T. Case and K. Crowe and H. Daniel and J. Deutsch and J. Govaerts and Yu. S. Grigoriev and F. J. Hartmann and P. Kammel and R. King and B. Lauss and E. M. Maev and V. E. Markushin and J. Marton and M. Muehlbauer and C. Petitjean and Th. Petitjean and G. E. Petrov and R. Prieels and W. Prymas and W. Schott and G. G. Semenchuk and Yu. V. Smirenin and A. A. Vorobyov and N. I. Voropaev and P. Wojciechowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9708487},
year = {2011}
}
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13 pages, 6 PostScript figures