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The purpose of this lecture is to give an introduction to the behaviour of muonium (μ+e−) in solids and to acquaint you with the present status of the μSR research in semiconductors. Most of the first applications of positive muons in solid state physics dealt with muonium and only a few experiments were made on muons in metals. Today this ratio has changed since the major part of μSR studies is concerned with metals, as you can see from the program of this school. Owing to the Fermi-Dirac distribution of the conduction electrons the muon magnetic moment reacts in metals quite differently on internal and external magnetic fields than in the paramagnetic muonium state where the interaction is dominated by the large magnetic moment of the unpaired electron.
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Meier, P.F. (1980). μSR in Semiconductors. In: Crowe, K., Duclos, J., Fiorentini, G., Torelli, G. (eds) Exotic Atoms ’79 Fundamental Interactions and Structure of Matter. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3042-4_20
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