Resonant Scattering of Muonic Hydrogen Atoms and Dynamics of Muonic Molecular Complex

TRIUMF Munoic Hydrogen Collaboration; Fujiwara, M. C.; Adamczak, A.; Bailey, J. M.; Beer, G. A.; Beveridge, J. L.; Faifman, M. P.; Huber, T. M.; Kammel, P.; Kim, S. K.; Knowles, P. E.; Kunselman, A. R.; Maier, M.; Markushin, V. E.; Marshall, G. M.; Martoff, C. J.; Mason, G. R.; Mulhauser, F.; Olin, A.; Petitjean, C.; Porcelli, T. A.; Wozniak, J.; Zmeskal, J.

Resonant Scattering of Muonic Hydrogen Atoms and Dynamics of Muonic Molecular Complex

Authors

TRIUMF Munoic Hydrogen Collaboration

Description

Resonant scattering of muonic hydrogen atoms via back decay of molecular complex, a key process in the understanding of epithermal muonic molecular formation, is analyzed. The limitations of the effective rate approximation are discussed and the importance of the explicit treatment of the back decay is stressed. An expression of the energy distribution for the back-decayed atoms is given.
5pages, contribution to RIKEN International Symposium on Muon Catalyzed Fusion, to be published in Hyperfine Interactions