{
  "id": "1206.3961",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-06-18T15:15:37.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-06-18T15:15:37.000Z",
  "title": "The Production and Discovery of True Muonium in Fixed-Target Experiments",
  "authors": [
    "Andrzej Banburski",
    "Philip Schuster"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRD",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.86.093007",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex",
    "nucl-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "Upcoming fixed-target experiments designed to search for new sub-GeV forces will also have sensitivity to the never before observed True Muonium atom, a bound state of a muon and anti-muon. We describe the production and decay characteristics of True Muonium relevant to these experiments. Importantly, we find that secondary production mechanisms dominate over primary production for the long-lived 2S and 2P states, leading to total yields an order of magnitude larger than naive estimates previously suggested. We present yield estimates for True Muonium as a function of energy fraction and decay length, useful for guiding future experimental studies. Discovery and measurement prospects appear very favorable.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-06-18T15:15:37.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "12.20.Ds"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "fixed-target experiments",
      "secondary production mechanisms dominate",
      "true muonium relevant",
      "true muonium atom",
      "measurement prospects appear"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Nov",
      "volume": 86,
      "number": 9,
      "pages": "093007"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1118581,
      "adsabs": "2012PhRvD..86i3007B"
    }
  }
}