Université de Fribourg

Ramsauer-Townsend effect in muonic atom scattering

Mulhauser, Françoise ; Adamczak, A. ; Beer, G. A. ; Bystritsky, V. M. ; Filipowicz, M. ; Fujiwara, M. C. ; Huber, T. M. ; Huot, Olivier ; Jacot-Guillarmod, R. ; Kammel, P. ; Kim, S. K. ; Knowles, Paul E. ; Kunselman, A. R. ; Marshall, G. M. ; Olin, A. ; Petitjean, C. ; Porcelli, T. A. ; Schaller, Lukas A. ; Stolupin, V. A. ; Woźniak, J. ; Zmeskal, J.

In: Physical Review A, 2006, vol. 73, p. 034501

We present the final results of an experimental study of µd and µt atom scattering in solid hydrogen cooled to 3 K. Strong effects resulting from the Ramsauer-Townsend effect have been observed in the TRIUMF experiment E742 where muons were stopped in thin frozen layers of hydrogen. The measured Ramsauer-Townsend minimum energy for both µd and...