Measurement of the resonant d(mu)t molecular formation rate in solid HD

Bound states of dtμ, pdμ and t pμ mesomolecules

The energy spectrum of excited bound states of muonic molecules ptμ, pdμ, and dtμ is calculated on the basis of the stochastic variational method. The basis wave functions of the muonic molecule are taken in the Gaussian form. The matrix elements of the Hamiltonian are calculated analytically. For numerical calculation, a computer code was written in the MATLAB system. As a result, the numerical values of bound state energies for excited P-states of muonic molecules ptμ, pdμ and dtμ were obtained.

On the validity range of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation: A semiclassical study for all-particle quantization of three-body Coulomb systems

The validity range of the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation is studied with respect to the variation of the mass (m) of negatively charged particle by substituting an electron (e) with muon (mu) and antiproton (p) in hydrogen molecule cation. With the use of semiclassical quantization applied to these (ppe), (ppmu), and (ppp) under a constrained geometry, we estimate the energy difference of the non-BO vibronic ground state from the BO counterpart. It is found that the error in the BO approximation scales to the power of 3/2 to the mass of negative particles, that is, m(1.5). The origin of this clear-cut relation is analyzed based on the original perturbation theory due to Born and Oppenheimer, with which we show that the fifth order term proportional to m(5/4) is zero and thereby the first correction to the BO approximation should arise from the sixth order term that is proportional to m(6/4). Therefore, the validity range of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is wider than that often mistakenly claimed to be proportional to m(1/4).