measurement of lifetime for muons captured inside nuclei
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Measurement of lifetime for muons captured inside nuclei
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Content
1. Introduce of the muon capture 2. The difference of the free decay an
d captured decay 3. How to measure the capture event 4. The apparatus of this experiment 5. The analysis of this experiment 6. Summary
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Introduce of the muon capture
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Muonic atom
1. Muon entering the matter
2. Electromagnetic interactions
3. One electron is replaced by muon and transitions down to the muonic atom K-shell around sec 910
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Muonic atom
Due to the relatively high mass of muon, the Bohr radius of muon is 206.7 times smaller than electron orbit
Only negative charged muon can form muonic atom
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Muon capture
There are two process of muon capture :
μ+p→n+ν
μ+p→n+ν+γ The process contains no charged particles i
n the results The process is relatively fast Only negative charged muon may be captur
ed
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The difference of the free decay and captured decay
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About muon lifetime
Muon lifetime is a typical process of radioactive decay.
The radioactive decay is a random process, independent of the previous life of the particle.
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Muon lifetime distribution
dttNtdN )()(
The number of decayed muon
The number of muons at time t
is a constant“decay rate”
teNtN 0)(
We call the muon lifetime is
1
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The example of muon lifetime measurement
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Muon captured lifetime distribution
The capture decay lifetime is also a radioactive decay.
Because of the relative short lifetime of capture process, the lifetime we measured will less than free decay lifetime.
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How the muon capture affect the muon lifetime measurement
The free decay lifetime:
The capture decay lifetime:
Here the A and C are constants, B is the mean lifetime of freedecay, D is the mean lifetime of capture decay, E is the randomaccidental coincidence which produced by the noise.
CAey B
x
ECeAey D
x
B
x
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The example of muon capture lifetime measurement
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How to measure the capture event
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How to measure the capture process
The two process of capture are:
μ+p→n+ν
μ+p→n+ν+γ
We can try to measure the n or γ-ray
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Measuring the γ-ray
γ-ray are more efficiently detected by high Z materials.
To detect the γ-ray, the material’s cross sections of photoelectric and pair production must large compared to the compton scattering cross section
NaI is a good material to detect the γ-ray.
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Measuring the neutron
The most common method to detect neutron is using another charged particles to replace the kinetic energy of neutron.
The neutron in the plastic scintillator or organic scintillator may have a strong probability to collide with the hydrogen's proton and transfer kinetic energy to the proton.
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The apparatus of this experiment
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The experiment flow chart
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The detectorsμ
n
p
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Experiment setup
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TDC flow chart
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ADC flow chart
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The good event nim timing chart
μ
n
p
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The cross event1 nim timing chart
particle
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The cross event2 nim timing chart
particle
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Muon flux
The flux of sea level muons is almost
for horizontal detectors For this experiment, the effective area
of the detector is The probability of two cosmic rays co
mes in 10 micro-sec is almost
12 min1 cm
2513cm
10000
1
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The analysis of this experiment
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The qualitative analysis of adc
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The qualitative analysis of tdc
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Cu target quantitative analysis
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Fe target quantitative analysis
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Al target quantitative analysis
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Summary
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The result
The average result The experiment result