Formation of Muonium in the 2S State and Observation of the Lamb Shift Transition
Abstract
Muonium in the 2S state has been produced by the beam-foil method with a μ+ beam of 10 MeV/c. The metastable 2S state of muonium has been detected by a static electric field quenching method, and the transition 2S12, F=1-->2P12, F=1 induced by a radio-frequency electric field has been observed with an event rate of about 4/h.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.914
- Bibcode:
- 1984PhRvL..52..914B
- Keywords:
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- 36.10.Dr;
- 12.20.Fv;
- Positronium muonium muonic atoms and molecules;
- Experimental tests