Annual Meeting of the Swiss Physical Society 2022

【343】Muonic atom spectroscopy with radioactive targets

29 Jun 2022, 17:30

15m

Room G 140

Talk Nuclear, Particle- and Astrophysics (TASK) Nuclear, Particle- & Astrophysics

Speaker

Stergiani Marina Vogiatzi

Description

MuX, an experiment running at PSI, aims to measure the nuclear charge radii of radioactive isotopes such as ${}^{226}\mathrm{Ra}$ and ${}^{248}\mathrm{Cm}$ employing muonic atoms. The usage of such targets in the lab is limited to μg-quantities. Therefore, the formation of muonic radioactive atoms cannot be accomplished with standard methods using the direct muon capture in targets of hundreds of mg. A technique to transfer muons to μg-targets developed by the muX collaboration employs muon transfer chain reactions in a high-pressure cell filled with ${\mathrm{D}}_2/{\mathrm{H}}_2$ gas. Measurements with ${}^{248}\mathrm{Cm}$ and ${}^{226}\mathrm{Ra}$ were performed in 2019 and are being analyzed. This contribution presents the status and the plans of the muX experiment.

Presentation materials

SPS2022_StellaVogiatzi.pdf