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Negative muons were trapped in gaseous mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen. The time distributions of the muonic oxygen X-rays showed a clear deviation from a single exponential structure. From these time distributions we evaluated the transfer rate from thermalized muonic hydrogen atoms to oxygen. In order to test the hypothesis of an energy-dependent transfer rate to oxygen we performed Monte Carlo simulations of the thermalization and the transfer process. We report on the present status of our investigations.
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Werthmüller, A., Adamczak, A., Jacot-Guillarmod, R. et al. Transfer of negative muons from hydrogen to oxygen. Hyperfine Interact 103, 147–155 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02317350
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