Welcome to the MuCap Experiment

Announcements

• Measurement of the Rate of Muon Capture in Hydrogen Gas and Determination of the Proton's Pseudoscalar Coupling gP
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032002 (2007)
• A Circulating Hydrogen Ultra-High Purification System for the MuCap Experiment
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A578, 485-497 (2007)
• First result of sister experiment MuLan
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032001 (2007)
• Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Muon Capture
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032003 (2007)
  A. Czarnecki, W. J. Marciano and A. Sirlin calculate important rad. correction.
• 2006 Progress and Annual Report posted, see Documents
• MuCap Results a Highlight of 2006 DNP Meeting
• First preliminary results released at DNP 2006 Fall Meeting
• CRDF project in the news 2005 , 2004

Introduction

Collaboration

Documents

Students

MuCap Notes

Talks

Some literature

Collaboration pages 

• UC Berkeley

• Malte Hildebrandt's page on PSI TPC info

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Internal information (contact Peter for password)

• MuCap TWiki

• Collaboration meetings

  date	location	summary
  Oct 7-9, 2006	UIUC, USA	Unblinding meeting
  Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2006	UCB, USA	Talks
  May 1-3, 2005	UIUC, USA	Talks
  June 14-18, 2004	Gatchina, Russia	Proceedings
  Sep and Dec, 2002	PSI, Switzerland	Sep , Dec
  May 16-19, 2001	UIUC, USA	doc

  
  
• Plans and schedules
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  
  
• Run Info
  • run1 fall 1998
  • run2 spring 1999
  • run3 fall 1999
  • run4 spring 2000
  • run5 fall 2001
  • run6 fall 2002
  • run7 summer 2003
  • run8 fall 2004
  • run9 fall 2005
  • run10 spring 2006
  • run11 fall 2007
  
  
• Documentation of subsystems
  • Manuals
  • Detector systems
  • Data acquisition
  • Gas system
  • Simulations
    • Geant GMU
    • Scattering and kinetics
    • Garfield
  • Analysis
    
  • piE3 beam
  
  
• Internal Documents
  • NCSA 2006

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Peter Kammel / pkammel@uiuc.edu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Loomis Laboratory of Physics

1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801

Tel (217) 333-5424/ Fax 333-1215