Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1845550 | Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We report the result of a measurement of the positive muon lifetime τμ to one part-per-million (ppm) by the MuLan collaboration using a low-energy pulsed muon beam and a segmented array of plastic scintillators to record over 2×1012 decay positrons. Two different in-vacuum muon-stopping targets were used in separate data-taking periods. The combined result gives . This measurement of the muon lifetime provides the most precise determination of the Fermi constant, , and will be used to extract the capture rates of the negative muon on the proton and the deuteron in the ongoing MuCap and MuSun experiments.
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