Improved Measurement of the Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant

2011/08/19 by P. T. Debevec, Debevec, P. T.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1108.4033

Proceedings of CKM2010, the 6th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, University of Warwick, UK, 6-10 September 2010

arxiv created 2011/08/22 · arxiv updated 2011/08/23

Abstract

The MuLan collaboration has measured the lifetime of the positve muon to a precision of 1.0 parts per million. The Fermi constant is determined to a precision of 0.6 parts per million.

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