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Pis'ma v Zhurnal Èksperimental'noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2001, Volume 73, Issue 11, Pages 664–666
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FIELDS, PARTICLES, AND NUCLEI
A mechanism of unexpected temperature dependence of muonic catalysis in solid deuterium
S. S. Gershtein Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Moskovskaya obl.
Abstract:
It is shown that, at sufficiently low temperatures, the elastic scattering of $d\mu$ mesic atoms (as well as slow neutrons) in solid deuterium proceeds on the whole crystal lattice without energy loss, whereas inelastic scattering with excitation of phonons is weak. For this reason, the resonant formation of $dd\mu$ mesic molecules in solid deuterium occurs before the thermalization of $d\mu$ mesic atoms, which explains the observed temperature independence of the $dd\mu$-molecule formation rate and muonic catalysis.
Received: 04.05.2001
Citation:
S. S. Gershtein, “A mechanism of unexpected temperature dependence of muonic catalysis in solid deuterium”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 73:11 (2001), 664–666; JETP Letters, 73:11 (2001), 584–586
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