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Fig. 5

From: Controlling the process of muon formation for muon-catalyzed fusion: method of non-destructive average muon sign detection

Fig. 5

Meson decay interpretation of coil and collector signals. Signals are plotted on linear and logarithmic vertical scales. Calculated curves from Eq. (5) are in red with time constants shown. The decay time constants used are for decay of the intermediate kaons and pions. In the bottom panel, two calculated curves are included in the log plot. The values given in this panel are for the adjacent curve. The formation time constant τ1 is likely caused by the laser pulse width of 5 ns. The delays are given relative to the photodiode trigger from the laser pulse. The time constant of 39 ns is a dilated pion decay for pions formed by kaon decay, moving at a relativistic velocity of approximately 0.75c. See further Ref. [33] for details on the velocity measurements

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