Speaker
Dimitar Bakalov
(INRNE)
Description
We determine from the available experimental data the cross section of muon transfer to molecular oxygen at low energies with account of the oxygen molecule structure. Building on an earlier work, the results highlight the role of the molecular structure effects and significantly improve the agreement with theoretical calculations of the muon transfer rate. An efficient computational model of the kinetics of processes involving muonic hydrogen atoms in gaseous mixture of H$_2$ and O$_2$ is developed and analyzed. The model is applied in the description of the FAMU experiment for the measurement of the hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen and the Zemach radius of the proton.
Authors
Dimitar Bakalov
(INRNE)
Iavor Boradjiev
(INRNE)
M. Stoilov
(INRNE)
Petar Danev
(INRNE)
Hristo Tonchev
(INRNE)