Weakly decaying negative particles may live long enough to come to rest in matter and be captured
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Weakly decaying negative particles may live long enough to come to rest in matter and be captured by a nucleus. Consider the simplest case of the capture by a proton.
(a) Evaluate the Bohr radius for the μ ̅ p system (muonium), the π ̅ p system (pionium), the K ̅ p system (kaonium) and the p̅p system (antiprotonium).
(b) Calculate the energy released in the capture of an electron at rest into the ground state by a proton.
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Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics
ISBN: 978-1107050402
2nd edition
Authors: Alessandro Bettini
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