MUON-CATALYZED PT FUSION

Authors
BAUMANN P DANIEL H GRUNEWALD S HARTMANN FJ LIPOWSKY R MOSER E SCHOTT W VONEGIDY T ACKERBAUER P BREUNLICH WH FUCHS M JEITLER M KAMMEL P MARTON J NAGELE N WERNER J ZMESKAL J BOSSY H CROWE KM SHERMAN RH LOU K PETITJEAN C MARKUSHIN VE
Citation
P. Baumann et al., MUON-CATALYZED PT FUSION, Physical review letters, 70(24), 1993, pp. 3720-3723
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
70
Issue
24
Year of publication
1993
Pages
3720 - 3723
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1993)70:24<3720:MPF>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
Gamma rays and, for the first time, conversion muons of pt fusion have been measured from liquid mixtures of protium, deuterium, and tritium . The rate lambda10 for spin flip from the triplet to the singlet stat e of tmu(1s) was found to be lambda10 = (1.06 +/- 0.13) x 10(3) mus-1, the rate for muon-catalyzed pt fusion from the (I = 1) nuclear-spin s tate to be lambda(pt)f(I = 1) = 0.067 +/- 0.002(-0.002)+0.005 mus-1, a nd the molecular formation rate to be lambda(pt)m = (7.5 +/- 0.3(-0.3) +1.0) mus-1 (all rates normalized to liquid hydrogen density).