Pulsed source of ultra low energy positive muons for near-surface μSR studies

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 335-346

  Bakule, Pavel ^a   Matsuda, Yasuyuki ^a   Miyake, Yasuhiro ^b   Nagamine, Kanetada ^b   Iwasaki, Masahiko ^a   Ikedo, Yutaka ^b   Shimomura, Koichiro ^b   Strasser, Patrick ^b   Makimura, Shunshuke ^b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

07.77.Ka; 32.80.Rm; 36.10.Dr; 41.75. i; 42.65.Ky; 76.75.+i; Low energy muons; Lyman ; Muon spin rotation; Muonium generation; Muonium ionization; Thin film; Ultra slow muons; Vacuum ultraviolet laser

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; PULSATILE FLOW;

MUON SPIN ROTATION; MUONIUM GENERATION; ULTRA SLOW MUONS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 38349078617     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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