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Line shape analysis of the Kβ transition in muonic hydrogen

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The Kβ transition in muonic hydrogen was measured with a high-resolution crystal spectrometer. The spectrum is shown to be sensitive to the ground-state hyperfine splitting, the corresponding triplet-to-singlet ratio, and the kinetic energy distribution in the 3p state. The hyperfine splitting and triplet-to-singlet ratio are found to be consistent with the values expected from theoretical and experimental investigations and, therefore, were fixed accordingly in order to reduce the uncertainties in the further reconstruction of the kinetic energy distribution. The presence of high-energetic components was established and quantified in both a phenomenological, i.e. cascade-model-free fit, and in a direct deconvolution of the Doppler broadening based on the Bayesian method.

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  1. LIBPhys, Physics Department, University of Coimbra, 3004-526, Coimbra, Portugal

    Daniel S. Covita & Joaquim M. F. dos Santos

  2. Laboratory for Particle Physics, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232, Villigen, Switzerland

    Daniel S. Covita, Thomas S. Jensen, Valeri E. Markushin & Leopold M. Simons

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, 45110, Ioannina, Greece

    Dimitrios F. Anagnostopoulos

  4. Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Hermann Fuhrmann, Alexander Gruber, Albert Hirtl, Tomoichi Ishiwatari, Philipp Schmid & Johann Zmeskal

  5. Zentralinstitut für Elektronik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    Hubert Gorke

  6. Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    Detlev Gotta, Michael Nekipelov & Marian Theisen

  7. Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Case 74, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    Paul Indelicato & Eric-Olivier Le Bigot

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    Paul Indelicato

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    Paul Indelicato

  10. Institut für Theoretische Physik Universität Zürich, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Thomas S. Jensen

  11. Skobeltsyn Institut of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    Vladimir N. Pomerantsev & Vladimir P. Popov

  12. Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, CNRS-UMR 7588, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, 75005, Paris, France

    Martino Trassinelli

  13. I3N, Department of Physics, Aveiro University, 3810, Aveiro, Portugal

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Covita, D.S., Anagnostopoulos, D.F., Fuhrmann, H. et al. Line shape analysis of the Kβ transition in muonic hydrogen. Eur. Phys. J. D 72, 72 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2018-80593-1

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