Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2014
Volume 59, Number 5
Saturday–Tuesday, April 5–8, 2014; Savannah, Georgia
Session R7: Instrumentation I
10:45 AM–12:33 PM,
Monday, April 7, 2014
Room: 201
Chair: Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2014.APR.R7.7
Abstract: R7.00007 : Measuring the Rate of Muon Capture on the Deuteron
11:57 AM–12:09 PM
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Author:
Luis Ibanez
(Boston University)
The goal of the MuSun experiment is to measure the rate of nuclear muon capture on the deuteron with a precision of 1.5\%. This rate will be used to fix the low-energy constant that describes the two-nucleon weak axial current in effective field theory models. It will therefore calibrate evaluations of proton-proton fusion and neutrino-deuteron scattering. The experiment uses many of the techniques and much of the apparatus that were developed for the successful MuCap measurement of the rate of muon capture on the proton. However, to optimize the molecular kinetics, the deuterium gas is cooled to 30 K in a cryogenic time projection chamber (TPC). Progress in the analysis of the data taken during the production run of 2011 will be presented, as well as a description of the hardware upgrades and performance during the 2013 run, in preparation for another high-statistics run in 2014.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2014.APR.R7.7
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