Discharge of metastable nuclei during muon capture: basis’s of new nuclear sensors

Abstract

A negative muon captures by a metastable nucleus may accelerate the discharge of the latter by many orders of magnitude [1,2]. For a certain relation between the energy range of the nuclear and muonic levels the discharge may be followed by the ejection of a meson, which may then participate in the discharge of the other nuclei. These processes can be considered as theoretical basis’s for creation of the new type nuclear sensors. Here we present consistent theory of such processes, based on the new, QED energy approach (EA) [3-5] to calculating characteristics for the discharge of a nucleus with emission of γ quantum and further meson conversion, which initiates this discharge.