Investigation of the hydrogen multilayered target H/T−D2 and muonic X-ray yields in ion implantation

Abstract

This paper extends applications of the multilayered solid target H/T−D2, which is kept at 3 K. The time evolutions of muonic tritium atoms (μt) are obtained, by taking into account μt production rate at different places of deuterium material. The apparatus H/T−D2 can be used for checking nuclear properties of implanted ions, which take part at muon transfer. Electromagnetic X-rays are generated by muon atomic transitions. The muonic X-ray transition energies are strongly affected by the size of nuclei. Here, a solid hydrogen–tritium (H/T) with a ≈1 mm thick is used for μt production. For ion implantation, the required amount of deuterium material is determined to be about 3.2 μm. Moreover, the muonic X-ray yields are estimated and compared with those of the arrangement H/T−D2. While the present target requires argon ion beam intensity nearly a factor of 2 times smaller; gives a relatively higher X-ray yield (15% enhancement per hour) at the energy 644 keV with the detection efficiency of ≈1%.