Experimental investigation of the muon transfer reaction from deuterium to helium isotopes
1996
Muon transfer from the ground state of muonic deuterium to a helium atom proceeds mainly via the formation of a muonic molecule in an excited state. A large number of decay X rays (∼ 6.8 keV) from these (dµHe)* molecules were observed for the4He as well as for the3He case. The time distributions of these X rays allow the determination of the ground state transfer rate. The simultaneous employment of Ge/Si-detectors and CCDs for the same target conditions allows the determination of the branching ratio of radiative to nonradiative decay for the first time.
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