Formation of the Muonic Helium Atom, αμ-e-, and Observation of Its Larmor Precession

P. A. Souder; D. E. Casperson; T. W. Crane; V. W. Hughes; D. C. Lu; H. Orth; H. W. Reist; M. H. Yam; G. Zu Putlitz

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.1417

Formation of the Muonic Helium Atom, αμ-e-, and Observation of Its Larmor Precession

P. A. Souder, D. E. Casperson, T. W. Crane, V. W. Hughes, D. C. Lu, H. Orth, H. W. Reist, M. H. Yam, G. Zu Putlitz

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The muonic helium atom, αμ-e-, has been formed by stopping polarized negative muons in He gas at 14 atm with a Xe admixture of 2%, and observed through its characteristic Larmor precession frequency of 1.4 MHz/G. In addition a nonzero residual polarization of P=0.06±0.01 for μ- stopped in pure He gas has been measured for the first time, which corresponds to a depolarization factor of 18±3.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1417-1420
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	34
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.1417
State	Published - 1975
Externally published	Yes

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