Mesurement of the Rate of Muon Capture on the Deuteron

Speaker: Luis Ibáñez Herrera

When: April 7, 2015 (Tue), 10:30AM to 11:30AM (add to my calendar)
Location: PRB 595

This event is part of the PhD Final Oral Exams.

Examining Committee: Robert Carey, James Miller, Edward Kearns,So-Young Pi, Shyam Erramilli

Abstract:

The goal of the MuSun experiment is to measure the rate of nuclear muon capture on the deuteron with a precision of 1.5%. This rate will be used to fix the low-energy constant that describes the two-nucleon weak axial current in effective field theory models. It will, therefore, calibrate evaluations of proton-proton fusion and neutrino-deuteron scattering. Results from the analysis of the 2011 dataset will be presented.

Luis