Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke

publications by Peter K. Haff.


Papers Published

  1. Haff, P.K. and Vogel, P. and Winther, A., Capture of negative muons in atoms, Phys. Rev. A, Gen. Phys. (USA), vol. 10 no. 14 (1974), pp. 1430 - 2 .
    (last updated on 2007/04/10)

    Abstract:
    The effect of the collisions experienced by a muon moving through an atom may be described by introducing a frictional force in the classical equations of motion. In the region of the electronic K shell, the Auger transitions should be treated quantum-mechanically. This calculation of the energy spectrum of the captured muons and the angular momentum distributions of muons at the electronic K orbit includes the interrelation between the stopping power of the electron gas and capture. There is a close resemblance between the P(L) distribution of angular momentum and the statistical 2L+1 distribution

    Keywords:
    mesic and muonic atoms;

 

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