The influence of spectator nuclear motion on the nonresonant formation of muonic hydrogen molecules

摘要

A new approach has been developed in order to estimate the influence of the nuclear motion of the hydrogenic molecules on the nonresonant formation of the muonic hydrogen molecules. The rates of such nonresonant reactions, in collisions of the muonic hydrogen atoms with the symmetric and asymmetric hydrogenic molecules, have been calculated for a wide range of kinetic energies up to 100 eV. It has been shown that the internal nuclear motion significantly affects the nonresonant formation processes at specified low collision energies. The energy-dependent formation rates are indispensable in the interpretation of the already-measured data and for the upcoming and planned experiments in low-energy muon physics.