Table 6 Barium muonic x-ray signal measured using different fabrication strategies and target masses. The round brackets () represent the statistical error on the fit, while the square brackets [] represent the combined error of window transmission and detection efficiency.
From: A comparative study of target fabrication strategies for microgram muonic atom spectroscopy
Target | 2p–1s count rate (\(10^{-6}\) muon−1) | \(\Lambda _{tot}\) (\(10^{-4}\) muon−1) | \(\Lambda _{mass}\) (\(10^{-5}\) muon−1 \({\upmu }\text {g}^{-1}\)) |
|---|---|---|---|
MP \(25\,{\upmu }\text {g}\) | 15.4(9) | 61.0(4)[8] | 24.2(13)[30] |
MP \(10\,{\upmu }\text {g}\) | 9.8(6) | 39(3)[5] | 39(3)[5] |
MP \(5\,{\upmu }\text {g}\) | 6.4(6) | 25(3)[4] | 51(5)[7] |
DoD \(50\,{\upmu }\text {g}\) | 1.8(5) | 7.1(18)[9] | 1.42(36)[18] |
DoD \(25\,{\upmu }\text {g}\) | < 1.05 | < 4.1[5] | < 1.6[3] |
DoD \(10\,{\upmu }\text {g}\) | < 1.46 | < 5.7[7] | < 5.7[7] |
