Observation of Long-Lived Muonic Hydrogen in the 2S State

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2006-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610100v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.193402

The kinetic energy distribution of ground state muonic hydrogen atoms mu-p(1S) is determined from time-of-flight spectra measured at 4, 16, and 64 hPa H2 room-temperature gas. A 0.9 keV-component is discovered and attributed to radiationless deexcitation of long-lived mu-p(2S) atoms in collisions with H2 molecules. The analysis reveals a relative population of about 1%, and a pressure-dependent lifetime (e.g. (30.4 +21.4 -9.7) ns at 64 hPa) of the long-lived mu-p(2S) population, equivalent to a 2S-quench rate in mu-p(2S) + H2 collisions of (4.4 +2.1 -1.8) 10^11 s^-1 at liquid hydrogen density.

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