4 papers
Muon Capture on the Proton and Deuteron
Frederick Gray
By measuring the lifetime of the negative muon in pure protium (hydrogen-1), the MuCap experiment determines the rate of muon capture on the proton, from which the proton's pseudos…
Data acquisition system for the MuLan muon lifetime experiment
V. Tishchenko, S. Battu, S. Cheekatmalla +8
We describe the data acquisition system for the MuLan muon lifetime experiment at Paul Scherrer Institute. The system was designed to record muon decays at rates up to 1 MHz and ac…
Measurement of the Rate of Muon Capture in Hydrogen Gas and Determination of the Proton's Pseudoscalar Coupling
V. A. Andreev, T. I. Banks, T. A. Case +33
The rate of nuclear muon capture by the proton has been measured using a new experimental technique based on a time projection chamber operating in ultra-clean, deuterium-depleted…
Improved Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant
MuLan Collaboration, D. B. Chitwood, T. I. Banks +38
The mean life of the positive muon has been measured to a precision of 11 ppm using a low-energy, pulsed muon beam stopped in a ferromagnetic target, which was surrounded by a scin…