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PSI的μ子俘获

Muon capture at PSI

Peter Winter

摘要:

测量μ子在氢中的俘获率是研究核子轴向流的最直接的方法之一。MuCap实验使用了一个负μ子束,它停在一个用超纯氢气操作的时间投影室中。在衰变电子探测器的包围下,可以测量氢中μ子的寿命,以确定单线态捕获率Lambda_s,最终精度为1%。俘获率决定了核子的赝标形状因子g_p。第一个结果g_p = 7.3 +- 1.1已经公布,对全部统计数据的最终分析将把误差减少到原来的3倍。氘核上的μ子俘获探测了双核子系统中的弱轴向流。在有效场论的框架内,计算这种涉及轴向电流的双核子过程需要知道一个额外的低能常数,该低能常数可以从双重态俘获率Lambda_d中提取。同样的常数,然后允许模型独立计算相关的过程,如太阳pp融合或中微子-氘散射。MuSun实验将推断Lambda_d优于1.5%。该实验使用MuCap检测装置,带有一个使用30 K氘操作的新时间投影室和几项硬件升级。该系统目前已全面投入使用,主要的物理数据采集工作将于2011年开始。

英文摘要:

Measuring the rate of muon capture in hydrogen provides one of the most direct ways to study the axial current of the nucleon. The MuCap experiment uses a negative muon beam stopped in a time projection chamber operated with ultra-pure hydrogen gas. Surrounded by a decay electron detector, the lifetime of muons in hydrogen can be measured to determine the singlet capture rate Lambda_s to a final precision of 1%. The capture rate determines the nucleon's pseudoscalar form factor g_p. A first result, g_p = 7.3 +- 1.1, has been published and the final analysis of the full statistics will reduce the error by a factor of up to 3. Muon capture on the deuteron probes the weak axial current in the two-nucleon system. Within the framework of effective field theories the calculation of such two-nucleon processes involving the axial current requires the knowledge of one additional low energy constant which can be extracted from the doublet capture rate Lambda_d. The same constant then allows to model-independently calculate related processes such as solar pp-fusion or neutrino-deuteron scattering. The MuSun experiment will deduce Lambda_d to better than 1.5%. The experiment uses the MuCap detection setup with a new time projection chamber operated with deuterium at 30K and several hardware upgrades. The system is currently fully commissioned and the main physics data taking will start in 2011.

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