Recoil alignment in muon capture on nitrogen-14

T. P. Gorringe, D. P. Corbin, T. J. Stocki

We report a measurement of the longitudinal alignment $A_L$ of the recoil nucleus in the ${\mu }^{-}{+}^{14}$N$(1^{+},0)$ $\to$ ${\nu }_{\mu }{+}^{14}$C$(2^{+},7012)$ transition. The experiment was p…