Collisional deexcitation of exotic hydrogen atoms in highly excited states
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Abstract:The atomic cascades in μ-p and p atoms have been studied in detail using new results for the cross-sections of the scattering of highly excited exotic atoms from molecular hydrogen. The cascade calculations have been done with an updated version of the extended standard cascade model that computes the evolution in the kinetic energy from the beginning of the cascade. The resulting X-ray yields, kinetic energy distributions, and cascade times are compared with the experimental data.
Journal: The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics