Muon spin spectroscopy

AD Hillier, SJ Blundell, I McKenzie, I Umegaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Muons are particles with a spin of ½ that can be implanted into a wide range of condensed
matter materials to act as a local probe of the surrounding atomic environment …

Single-pulse terahertz spectroscopy monitoring sub-millisecond time dynamics at a rate of 50 kHz

N Couture, W Cui, M Lippl, R Ostic, DJJ Fandio… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Slow motion movies allow us to see intricate details of the mechanical dynamics of complex
phenomena. If the images in each frame are replaced by terahertz (THz) waves, such …

Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics with Non-Condon Effect of Charge Carrier Dynamics

H Lu, R Long - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nonradiative multiphonon transitions play a crucial role in understanding charge carrier
dynamics. To capture the non-Condon effect in nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NA-MD) …

Science case for the new high-intensity muon beams HIMB at PSI

M Aiba, A Amato, A Antognini, S Ban, N Berger… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In April 2021, scientists active in muon physics met to discuss and work out the physics case
for the new High-Intensity Muon Beams (HIMB) project at PSI that could deliver of order …

[HTML][HTML] Carrier lifetimes in high-lifetime silicon wafers and solar cells measured by photoexcited muon spin spectroscopy

JD Murphy, NE Grant, SL Pain, T Niewelt… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Photoexcited muon spin spectroscopy (photo-μSR) is used to study excess charge carrier
lifetimes in silicon. Experiments are performed on silicon wafers with very high bulk lifetimes …

Two-component density functional theory for muonic molecules: Inclusion of the electron–positive muon correlation functional

M Goli, S Shahbazian - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
It is well-known experimentally that the positively charged muon and the muonium atom may
bind to molecules and solids, and through muon's magnetic interaction with unpaired …

Development of transient μSR method for high-flux pulsed muons

S Nishimura, H Okabe, M Hiraishi, M Miyazaki… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to expand the applicability of muon spin rotation, relaxation, and resonance (μ SR)
experiments with pulsed muons and to make effective use of the high-flux beam, we have …

The new high field photoexcitation muon spectrometer at the ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source

K Yokoyama, JS Lord, P Murahari, K Wang… - Review of Scientific …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
A high power pulsed laser system has been installed on the high magnetic field muon
spectrometer (HiFi) at the International Science Information Service pulsed neutron and …

Muonium state exchange dynamics in -type GaAs

K Yokoyama, JS Lord, PW Mengyan, MR Goeks… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Muonium (Mu), a pseudoisotope of hydrogen with a positively charged muon in place of the
proton, takes the form Mu+, 0,−(like isolated hydrogen, ie, H+, 0,−) in semiconductors. The …

Decoupling bulk and surface recombination properties in silicon by depth-dependent carrier lifetime measurements

K Yokoyama, JS Lord, J Miao, P Murahari… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Muons, as a bulk probe of materials, have been used to study the depth profile of charge
carrier kinetics in Si wafers by scanning the muon implantation depth. The photoexcited …