Measurement of the positive muon lifetime and determination of the Fermi constant to part-per-million precision

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Webber, D M ^a   Tishchenko, V ^b   Peng, Q ^c   Battu, S ^b   Carey, R M ^c   Chitwood, D B ^a   Crnkovic, J ^a   Debevec, P T ^a   Dhamija, S ^b   Earle, W ^c   Gafarov, A ^c   Giovanetti, K ^d   Gorringe, T P ^b   Gray, F E ^e   Hartwig, Z ^c   Hertzog, D W ^a   Johnson, B ^f   Kammel, P ^a   Kiburg, B ^a   Kizilgul, S ^a   Kunkle, J ^a   Lauss, B ^g   Logashenko, I ^c   Lynch, K R ^c   McNabb, R ^a   Miller, J P ^c   Mulhauser, F ^a,g   Onderwater, C J G ^a,h   Phillips, J ^c   Rath, S ^b   Roberts, B L ^c   Winter, P ^a   Wolfe, B ^a   more..

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Kentucky Wesleyan College   (United States)

^g PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE RATE; FERMI CONSTANT; LOW ENERGIES; MUON BEAM; MUON LIFETIME; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS; POSITIVE MUONS; TARGET CONFIGURATIONS;

DATA STRUCTURES;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

EID: 79251491363     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.041803     Document Type: Article

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