Abstract
Formulas for angular correlations and capture rates in muon-capture transitions between initial and final nuclear states characterized by spin and isospin and , and and , are derived and applied to , , and in a model-independent (elementary-particle) approach. The results indicate that the angular correlations between the momenta of the recoiling final nuclei and the polarizations of the and/or the initial nuclei are sensitive to the value of the nuclear pseudoscalar form factors . The analysis also indicates that inconsistencies among the available data on are most likely of experimental origin.
RADIOACTIVITY , , ; angular correlations and capture rates. Hyperfine effects are properly included.
- Received 25 January 1978
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.17.1799
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