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Pulsed source of ultra low energy positive muons for near-surface μSR studies
Abstract We have produced a pulsed beam of low energy (ultra slow) polarized positive muons (LE-μ+) and performed several demonstration muon spin rotation/relaxation (μSR) experiments at ISIS RIKEN-RAL muon facility in UK. The energy of the muons implanted into a sample is tuneable between 0.1 keV and 18 keV. This allows us to use muons as local magnetic microprobes on a nanometre scale. The control over the implantation depth is from several nanometres to hundreds of nanometres depending on the sample density and muon energy. The LE-μ+ are produced by two-photon resonant laser ionization of thermal muonium atoms. Currently ∼15 LE-μ+/s with 50% spin polarization are transported to the μSR sample position, where they are focused to a small spot with a diameter of only 4 mm. The overall LE-μ+ generation efficiency of 3 × 10−5 is comparable to that obtained when moderating the muon beam to epithermal energies in simple van der Waals bound solids. In contrast to other methods of LE-μ+ generation, the implantation of the muons into the sample can be externally triggered with the duration of the LE-μ+ pulse being only 7.5 ns. This allows us to measure spin rotation frequencies of up to 40 MHz.
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Discovery of the repulsive energy shift of the kaonic hydrogen 1s state
Abstract The aim in this manuscript is to clarify the progress in understanding the nature of the K ¯ N interaction at the lowest energy, given by the recent kaonic hydrogen X-ray experiment at KEK [1]. We have observed a clear spectrum showing the kaonic hydrogen K α line, for the first time. The analysis gives the repulsive energy shift to be Δ E (1 s ) = −323 ± 63(statistical) ± 11 (systematic) eV and the energy width to be Λ(1 s ) = 407 ± 208 ± 100 eV. This result is consistent with analyses of the previous low-energy scattering data and resolves the long-standing kaonic hydrogen puzzle.
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SEARCH FOR LORENTZ AND CPT VIOLATION EFFECTS IN MUON SPIN PRECESSION
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Muon catalyzed fusion experiments on muonic deuterium atom deceleration in thin solid deuterium films
Abstract Muon catalyzed fusion was investigated in a series of thin solid deuterium films by detecting protons from dd fusion. Two different contributions to the total fusion yield resulting from dμ atoms emitted from a primary hydrogen layer and from incident muons directly stopped in the deuterium film itself were observed. The thickness dependence of the fusion yield suggested the importance of molecular effects in dμ elastic scattering in D 2 .
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Radioactive Muonic Atom Studies with Intense Muon Beams
New intense muon beams with flux several orders of magnitude higher than at present muon facilities would allow many novel experimental studies that were until now statistically not feasible. The investigation of the nuclear properties of short‐lived nuclei using muonic atom spectroscopy would become possible. In this paper, the recent progress of a feasibility study at RIKEN‐RAL muon facility using the cold hydrogen film method to produce radioactive muonic atoms is being reported. The first experimental results have just been obtained with stable argon ions implanted in solid deuterium films.
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Measure of the spatial size for the monopole excitation in proton scattering
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Surface collective motion in the soliton bag model
Abstract Surface monopole vibration of the baryon is investigated on the basis of the soliton bag model. We derive a relativistic lagrangian for the motion, of which the mass parameter is proportional to the square of the bag radius. With the use of the semi-classical quantization, the energy spectra of the P 11 and P 33 resonances are reproduced fairly well by our model.
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Shear viscosity and spectral function of the quark matter
We discuss the shear viscosity of the quark matter by using the Kubo-Mori formula. It is found that the shear viscosity is expressed in terms of the quark spectral function. If the spectral function is approximated by a modified Bright-Wigner type, the viscosity decreases as the width of the spectral function increases. We also discuss dependence of the shear viscosity on the temperature and the density.
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A Rotating Bag Model for Hadrons. II Regge Trajectories of Baryons
The MIT bag model is modified in order to describe rotational motion of hadrons. It has a kind of «diatomic molecular» structure. The rotational excitation of the MIT bag is described by the polarized two colored sub-bags which are connected with each other by the gluon flux. One sub-bag contains a quark and the other has an antiquark for mesons. For baryons, the latter sub-bag contains the remaining two quarks instead of the antiquark. The Regge trajectories of hadrons are explained qualitatively by our new model with the usual MIT bag parameters. In particular the Regge slopes are reproduced fairly well. It is also pointed out that the gluon flux plays an important role in the rotational motion of hadrons
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Electron identification using the TOPAZ detector at TRISTAN
Abstract We present an electron-identification method using the time-projection chamber and the lead-glass calorimeter in the TOPAZ detector system. Using this method we have achieved good electron identification against hadron backgrounds over a wide momentum range in the hadronic events produced by both single-photon exchange and two-photon processes. Pion-rejection factors and electron efficiencies were 163 and 68.4% for high- P T electrons and 137 and 42.7% for low- P T electrons in the single-photon-exchange process, and 8600 and 36.0% for the two-photon process, respectively.
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Regge trajectories of baryons in the MIT bag model
Abstract We investigate Regge trajectories of baryons in the MIT bag model. It is shown that the energy spectra shown by the trajectories can be described fairly well by the stringlike solutions of the bag model. In particular, three strings with one junction and three ends can explain the delta trajectory better than one string with two ends. The three ends occupied by each quark are assumed to be an equilateral triangle configuration in our calculations.