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Muon spin-lattice relaxation and muonium diffusion in ice

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Longitudinal muon spin relaxation is measured in ice, using samples with and without enrichment in H2 17O, with a view to studying the mobility of the muonium fraction. A conventional analysis of the data, on the assumption that relaxation of the diamagnetic fraction is negligible, suggests that more than one mechanism of muonium relaxation is at work. A Bayesian analysis warns that separation of the diamagnetic and paramagnetic signals may not be so straightforward.

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  1. R. M. Macrae

    Present address: School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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  1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS, OX11 0QX, Oxfordshire, UK

    S. F. J. Cox, R. M. Macrae & D. S. Sivia

  2. Departamento de Física da Universidade, 3000, Coimbra, Portugal

    N. Ayres De Campos, P. J. Mendes & J. M. Gil

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Cox, S.F.J., Macrae, R.M., Sivia, D.S. et al. Muon spin-lattice relaxation and muonium diffusion in ice. Hyperfine Interact 85, 67–72 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02069403

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