Formation of muonium in condensed neon
Krasnoperov E. P., Meillikhov E. E., Ponomarev A. N., Pomyakushin V. Yu., Eshchenko D. G., Duginov V. N., Zhukov V. A., Mamedov T. N., Olshevskii V. G.
Muon polarization in condensed neon has been studied as a function of the electric and transverse magnetic fields. In solid neon, more than 80% of the muonium forms in a time of less than 1 ns, while in the liquid phase the observed muonium fraction in a transverse field of 8 G is 20%. The muonium formation time in the crystalline phase is short in comparison with that in the liquid phase because of the high mobility of excess electrons.