Radiative muon capture in 3He A comparison of the impulse approximation with elementary particle calculations》.pdf

Nuclear Physics A356 (1981) 483497 @ North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam Not to be reproduced by photoprint or microfilm without written permission from the publisher RADIATIVE MUON CAPTURE IN ‘He: A comparison of the impulse approximation with elementary particle calculations L. KLIEB and H.P.C. ROOD Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Groningen, POB 800,970O A VGroningen, The Netherlands Received 6 May 1980 (Revised 23 September 1980) Abstract: The photon spectrum of radiative muon capture in the 3He nucleus has been calculated with the help of the Adler and Dothan amplitude, including derivative terms, for both the impulse approximation with a realistic wave function and the elementary particle method. For the latter the sensitivity to the pion-nucleus coupling constant is pointed out. 1. Introduction Recently there has been a renewed interest in the study of radiative muon capture in nuclei lm3). In particular the 3He-3H partial transition has attracted a lot of attention, not least because the experiment now appears to be feasible. Surprisingly there have not been any calculations in terms of the impulse approximation (IA) even though sufficiently adequate wave functions have been known for some time. In view of the variety of elementary part