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Data from the recent PSI high statistics experiment on d μ d fusion are used to measure the stripping process in d μ d→ n+μ,3He and test current calculations of the stripping process. The PSI results in μ3He capture are also used to remove a troubling background from this measurement. Combination of these results with the old dμ t sticking analysis slightly raise and improve that result to ωs= (0.58± 0.04)% and indicate that theory and experiment can meet if theoretical stripping is increased only at the beginning of the track. This conclusion is in accord with the new stripping calculations where excited state stripping is increased significantly.
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Case, T., Balin, D., Breunlich, W. et al. Insights on d μ t sticking from d μ d stripping and μ,3He capture. Hyperfine Interactions 118, 197–202 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012617510278
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