Abstract
We perform a three-body calculation of direct muon-transfer ratesfrom thermalized muonic hydrogen isotopes to bare nucleiNe10+, S16+ and Ar18+ employingintegro-differential Faddeev-Hahn-type equations inconfiguration space with a two-state close-coupling approximationscheme. All Coulomb potentials including the strong final-stateCoulomb repulsion are treated exactly. A long-rangepolarization potential is included in the elastic channel totake into account the high polarizability of the muonichydrogen. The transfer rates so-calculated are in good agreementwith recent experiments. We find that the muon is capturedpredominantly in the n = 6, 9 and 10 states of muonicNe10+, S16+ and Ar18+, respectively.
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