The Future of Muon Physics : Proceedings of the International Symposium on The Future of Muon Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany, 7–9 May, 1991

This volume comprises a collection of invited papers presented at the interna­ tional symposium "The Future of Muon Physics", May 7-9 1991, at the Ruprecht­ Karls-Universitat in Heidelberg. In the inspiring atmosphere of the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum researchers working worldwide at universities and at many inter­ national accelerator centers came together to review the present status of the field and to discuss the future directions in muon physics. The muon, charged lepton of the second generation, was first oberved some sixty years ago~ Despite many efforts since, the reason for its existence still remains a secret to the scientific community challenging both theorists and experimentalists. In modern physics the muon plays a key role in many topics of research. Atomic physics with negative muons provides excellent tests of the theory of quantum electrodynamics and of the electro-weak interaction and probes nuclear properties. The. purely leptonic hydrogen-like muonium atom allows tests of fun­ damental laws in physics and the determination of precise values for fundamental constants. New measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon will probe the renormalizability of the weak interaction and will be sensitive to physics beyond the standard model. The muon decay is the most carefully studied weak process. Searches for rare decay modes of muons and for the conversion of muonium to antimuonium examine the lepton number conservation laws and new speculative theories. Nuclear muon capture addresses fundamental questions like tests of the CPT theorem. Front Matter....Pages I-VII Preface....Pages 1-1 Our Favourite — the MUON....Pages 2-2 Opening of the Symposium “The Future of Muon Physics” May 7–9, 1991 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg....Pages 3-4 Muon physics — Survey....Pages 5-12 Two-body QED bound states....Pages 13-23 Electro-weak interaction in muonic atoms....Pages 24-30 Some Open Problems in Muon Physics....Pages 31-34 Muonium....Pages 35-43 Reactions of muonic hydrogen isotopes....Pages 44-47 Muonic atoms spectroscopy....Pages 48-58 Laser spectroscopy of muonic atoms....Pages 59-69 Time-Fourier spectroscopy of muonium....Pages 70-73 Laser induced transition 3D-3P in muonic helium....Pages 74-79 Muon g — 2: Theory....Pages 80-87 The Cern (g-2) measurements....Pages 88-96 The Electric Dipole Moment of the Muon....Pages 97-100 The new muon (g-2) experiment at Brookhaven....Pages 101-108 Muon Decay....Pages 109-113 Measurements of the muon-neutrino mass....Pages 114-116 Rare muon decays and physics beyond the standard model....Pages 117-128 The neutrinos in muon decay....Pages 129-134 Rare Decays: Experiments....Pages 135-142 The future of muon physics: Nuclear muon capture....Pages 143-145 Laser Polarized Muonic Atoms....Pages 146-149 Radiative muon capture on hydrogen....Pages 150-155 Muon Capture in Hyperfine States of Muonic Deuterium and Induced Pseudoscalar Form Factor....Pages 156-158 Photon-hadron interactions revisited in deep inelastic muon scattering....Pages 159-168 Deep inelastic scattering of polarized muons....Pages 169-178 Attempts to understand g 1 (x) and g 2 (x)....Pages 179-185 Medium-energy neutrino physics....Pages 186-193 The future of Neutrino Physics....Pages 194-202 Muon-Catalyzed Fusion Theory....Pages 203-209 Resonant formation of dtμ mesic molecules in the triple H 2 + D 2 + T 2 mixture....Pages 210-214 Muon Science Research with Pulsed Muons at UT-MSL/KEK....Pages 215-222 Existing muon beams at LAMPF....Pages 223-225 Muon beams and facilities at TRIUMF....Pages 226-231 The ISIS Pulsed Muon Facility....Pages 232-239 Muon beams at PSI....Pages 240-242 Very slow positive muons....Pages 243-249 Phase space compression of low energy muon beams....Pages 250-254 A pulsed lepton source at LAMPF....Pages 255-257 Kicked surface muon beams....Pages 258-260 Recent applications of μ + SR in magnetism: Novel magnetic features in heavy electron compounds....Pages 261-268 Muons and Pions as Probes in Condensed Matter....Pages 269-279 Ephemeral and/or coloured muonic hydrogen atoms....Pages 280-284 PILAC: A pion linac facility for 1-GeV pion physics at LAMPF....Pages 285-288 Accelerator plans at PSI....Pages 289-291 Accelerator plans at TRIUMF....Pages 292-295 Muon Facility Plans Towards JHP....Pages 296-300 Conference summary....Pages 301-305 Back Matter....Pages 307-307 The future of Muon Physics presents invited lectures surveying and summarizing the present status of, and future directions in, Muon Physics. Both theoretical and experimental aspects are discussed with particular attention to the necessary features of future accelerators.