Mean life of the positive muon

K. L. Giovanetti; W. Dey; M. Eckhause; R. D. Hart; R. Hartmann; D. W. Hertzog; J. R. Kane; W. A. Orance; W. C. Phillips; R. T. Siegel; W. F. Vulcan; R. E. Welsh; R. G. Winter

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Mean life of the positive muon

K. L. Giovanetti^*, W. Dey^†, M. Eckhause, R. D. Hart^‡, R. Hartmann^§, D. W. Hertzog^∥, J. R. Kane, W. A. Orance^¶, W. C. Phillips et al.

R. T. Siegel, W. F. Vulcan, R. E. Welsh, and R. G. Winter

Department of Physics, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185

^*Present address: E.T.H., c/o S.I.N., CH 5234 Villigen, Switzerland.
^†Present address: Research and Development, PTT Technical Center, CH 3000 Berne, Switzerland.
^‡Present address: Bell Laboratories, Cragwood Road, South Plainfield, NJ 07080.
^§Present address: Zellweger Uster AG, CH 8634 Hombrechtikon, Switzerland.
^∥Present address: Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
^¶Present address: 144 West 70th Street, Apartment 4, New York, NY 10023.

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Phys. Rev. D 29, 343 – Published 1 February, 1984

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.29.343

Abstract

Positive pions were stopped in a water Cherenkov counter and the time distribution of the positrons from $π^{+} \to μ^{+} \to e^{+}$ was measured. The $μ^{+}$ mean life obtained, 2.196 95±0.000 06 μs, is slightly less than previous results.

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[c2] Particle Data Group, M. Roos et al., Phys. Lett. 111B, 1 (1982)

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[c10] G. Marshall, Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia, 1980

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[c15] J. Duclos, A. Magnon, and J. Picard, Phys. Lett. 47B, 491 (1973)

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