The Mean Life of NegativeMesons Stopped in Iron
- 15 August 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 91 (4), 971-972
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.91.971
Abstract
The mean life of negative cosmic-ray mesons stopping in an iron absorber has been found experimentally to be 0.21±0.06 μsec. The upper limit to the mean number of neutrons produced is very roughly one per meson captured by an iron nucleus.
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