https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14506-1
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Ordinary muon capture and 
competition in76As supporting calculations for 
decay
Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
Received:
17
March
2025
Accepted:
7
July
2025
Published online:
30
July
2025
The compound nucleus model is employed to calculate partial -decay width 
of states in 76As highly excited above the neutron binding energy. The calculations demonstrate the need to observe the competition above neutron threshold when extracting the population of low-lying excited states in 76As after muon capture on 76Se. Decay and feeding schemata can be modeled to support the extraction of partial muon capture rates. The latter are needed when results of (
) reactions are used in tests of model calculations for nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double beta decay.
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