Measurement of residual polarization and hyperfine transition rate in muonic hydrogen

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This proposed experiment is a muon spin rotation measurement of the hyperfine transition rate in muonic atoms involving a proton or deuteron. The residual spin polarization of a negative muon in gaseous hydrogen will be also measured. The hyperfine transitions are of importance for muon-catalyzed-fusion and muonic atom spectroscopy. On the hyperfine transition rate in muonic protium, only theoretical predictions are known and no measurement had been performed. For a case of muonic deuterium, there is approximately 40% of discrepancy between the experimental result and theoretical calculation. In the proposed experiment, muon spin precession in a static transverse magnetic field will be observed. The precession frequency depends on the hyperfine states of a muonic atom. The goal of the experiment is a systematic determination of the hyperfine rate with the relative uncertainty of 1%.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.94114980
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/94114980
Provenance
Creator Dr Katsu Ishida; Dr Sohtaro Kanda; Dr Masahio Iwasaki
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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 2018-07-11T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-02T09:24:04Z