Radiative muon capture in medium-heavy nuclei

doi:10.1016/0375-9474(80)90344-9

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 345, Issue 2, 25 August 1980, Pages 331-366

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Abstract

Radiative muon capture in nuclei is thoroughly investigated in view of its sensitivity to the pseudoscalar coupling constant g_P. In the photon energy domain of interest (k ⩾ 60 MeV) the effective one-body hamiltonian in use is shown essentially to hold true, with minor corrections due to the muon propagator in the nuclear field and to the two-step process. The closure approximation is avoided by appropriately integrating the response function calculated in the Fermi gas model, in the energy-momentum transfer plane.

Theoretical predictions in medium-heavy nuclei of the high-energy photon spectrum, of photon polarization, and of muon-spin photon angular correlation are given for various values of the pseudoscalar coupling constant.

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