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Muonium formation and diffusion in condensed neon

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Liquid and solid neon (ℓ-Ne ands-Ne) have been studied for the first time by theμ +SR, method. Prompt muonium (Mu) formation was detected by observation of the two-component precession signal at characteristic triplet Mu frequencies, which also revealed a Mu hyperfine interaction close to the vacuum value in bothℓ-Ne ands-Ne. Nearly all muons form Mu in the solid phase. A very slow, nearly T-independent Mu relaxation rate is increased to a somewhat larger constant rate (corresponding to static Mu atoms) by addition of any of a variety of impurities, suggesting quenching of coherent Mu diffusion by defect strain fields.

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  1. V. Storchak

    Present address: Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov sq. 46, 123182, Moscow, Russia

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  1. TRIUMF and Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, V6T 2A3, Vancouver, Canada

    V. Storchak, J. H. Brewer, W. N. Hardy, S. R. Kreitzman & G. D. Morris

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Storchak, V., Brewer, J.H., Hardy, W.N. et al. Muonium formation and diffusion in condensed neon. Hyperfine Interact 85, 109–115 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02069410

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