Radiative muon capture and the pseudoscalar coupling constant
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1992
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Welsh, Mark S.
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Radiative and ordinary muon capture rates are studied in medium-heavy nuclei, with all relativistic effects considered. To model the nucleus, a Fermi gas of nucleons acting under mean scalar and vector fields is considered. The calculation is performed first for a uniform density nucleus and then, using the local density approximation, for a more realistic nuclear density distribution obtained from electron scattering data. These calculated rates a.re compared with experimental data, the goal being to extract a value for the induced pseudoscalar coupling constant of the weak nucleonic interaction.
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