DOI 10.1007/s100529900068
Real time radiative corrections to charged particle decay laws
A. Widom1 - J. Swain1 - Y.N. Srivastava2
1 Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston MA, USA
2 Physics Department and INFN, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Received: 21 February 1999 / Published online: 3 August 1999
Abstract
The real time exponential decay laws for meta-stable charged particles
are shown to require radiative corrections. The methods employed are
well known to be valid for radiatively correcting Breit-Wigner line shapes.
Radiative corrections contribute substantially to
precision life time measurements of muons and pions when
initially stopped in condensed matter.
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