Detailed report of the MuLan measurement of the positive muon lifetime and determination of the Fermi constant

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

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

^d JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g Kentucky Wesleyan College   (United States)

^h PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84874994749     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.052003     Document Type: Article

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