Exotic Atoms ’79 Fundamental Interactions and Structure of Matter

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Fundamental Interactions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Muonium

      • Vernon W. Hughes

      Pages 3-18

   3. Positronium

      • Vernon W. Hughes

      Pages 19-22

   4. Anomalous Muon Capture and Lepton Number Conservation

      • Beat Hahn, Thomas Marti

      Pages 23-38

   5. A New Measurement of the Muon Capture Rate in Liquid Hydrogen

      • J. Duclos

      Pages 39-44

   6. Polarization Experiments in the Godfrey-Cycle

      • Laszlo Grenacs

      Pages 45-55

   7. Parity Non-Conservation in Atoms and Molecules

      • P. G. H. Sandars

      Pages 57-76

3. Quark Atoms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Quark Atoms

      • Thomas Appelquist

      Pages 79-100

   3. Test of QCD with Heavy Quark Bound States

      • Johann Rafelski, Raoul D. Viollier

      Pages 101-109

   4. Baryonium - Nuclear Atom or Colour Molecule?

      • Chan Hong-Mo

      Pages 111-138

4. The Chemical Physics of Mesic Atoms and Molecules

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Atomic Capture of Negative Mesons in Hydrogen

      • M. Leon

      Pages 141-146

   3. New Developments in the Study of Mesic Chemistry

      • Hubert Schneuwly

      Pages 147-159

   4. Elastic Scattering of Muonic Hydrogen Atoms Against Protons: Status of Experiments

      • A. Bertin

      Pages 161-167

   5. Muon Transfer Processes from Free Muonic Hydrogen and Deuterium: Recent Experimental Results

      • A. Vitale

      Pages 169-175

   6. Hydrogenic Mesomolecules and Muon Catalyzed Fusion

      • Johann Rafelski

      Pages 177-205

5. Muon Spin Rotation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Muon Diffusion and Trapping in Solids

      • A. M. Stoneham

      Pages 209-243

The second course of the International School on the Physics of Exotic Atoms took place at the "Ettore Majorana" Center for Scien­ tific Culture, Erice, Sicily, during the period from March 25 to April 5, 1979. It was attended by 40 participants from 23 insti­ tutes in 8 countries. The purpose of the course was to review the various aspects of the physics of exotic atoms, with particular emphasis on the re­ sults obtained in the last two years, i.e., after the first course of the School (Erice, April 24-30, 1977). The course dealt with two main topics, A) Exotic atoms and fundamental interactions and B) Applications to the study of the structure of matter. One of the aims of the course was to offer an opportunity for the exchange of experiences between scientists working in the two fields. In view of this, the lectures in the morning discussed the more general arguments in a common session, whereas the more specialized topics were treated in the afternoon, in two parallel sections. Section A was organized around four main subjects, briefly pos­ itronium and muonium, quarkonium, baryonium and neutral currents in atomic physics. In addition various progresses were reported in muon and antiproton physics.

• atom
• atomic physics
• atoms
• diffusion
• fields
• fundamental interaction
• fusion
• lepton
• metals
• molecule
• physics
• quark
• scattering
• semiconductor
• spin

• University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Kenneth Crowe

• CEN de Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France

  Jean Duclos

• Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Pisa, Italy

  Giovanni Fiorentini, Gabriele Torelli

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