Measurement of muon capture on the proton to 1% precision and determination of the pseudoscalar coupling gP
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-3-2013
Abstract
The MuCap experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute has measured the rate ΛS of muon capture from the singlet state of the muonic hydrogen atom to a precision of 1%. A muon beam was stopped in a time projection chamber filled with 10-bar, ultrapure hydrogen gas. Cylindrical wire chambers and a segmented scintillator barrel detected electrons from muon decay. ΛS is determined from the difference between the μ- disappearance rate in hydrogen and the free muon decay rate. The result is based on the analysis of 1.2×1010 μ- decays, from which we extract the capture rate ΛS=(714.9±5. 4stat±5.1syst) s-1 and derive the proton's pseudoscalar coupling gP(q02=-0.88mμ2)=8.06±0.55. © 2013 American Physical Society.
Recommended Citation
Andreev, V. A.; Banks, T. I.; Carey, R. M.; Case, T. A.; Clayton, S. M.; Crowe, K. M.; Deutsch, J.; Egger, J.; Freedman, S. J.; Ganzha, V. A.; Gorringe, T.; Gray, F. E.; Hertzog, D. W.; Hildebrandt, M.; Kammel, P.; Kiburg, B.; Knaack, S.; Kravtsov, P. A.; Krivshich, A. G.; Lauss, B.; Lynch, K. R.; Maev, E. M.; Maev, O. E.; Mulhauser, F.; Petitjean, C.; Petrov, G. E.; Prieels, R.; Schapkin, G. N.; Semenchuk, G. G.; Soroka, M. A.; Tishchenko, V.; Vasilyev, A. A.; Vorobyov, A. A.; and Vznuzdaev, M. E., "Measurement of muon capture on the proton to 1% precision and determination of the pseudoscalar coupling gP" (2013). Regis University Faculty Publications (comprehensive list). 705.
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