Re: muon kinetics equations

[Tom Banks <tbanks@socrates.berkeley.edu>]

> I would, of course, be interested in seeing the Mathematica notebooks/ROOT
> macros, etc. which the UIUC crew has used for their studies of the
> subject.

Hello again--

shortly after sending out my previous e-mail, I discovered Peter's
Mathematica notebook of kinetics calculations, posted under the heading
"Kinetics" on the page

  http://twiki.npl.uiuc.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralPK

By playing around with this file, I have confirmed that my simKinetics.C
macro and Peter's Mathematica calculations yield identical first moment
results, IF they are given the exact same values for the kinetics
parameters as inputs.  So, I think we agree in that respect.  However, I
am also finding that the 1st moment is not only sensitive to the molecular
formation rates, but it is also quite sensitive to the values of Lambda_S
and Lambda_T that are used, since they determine the molecular capture
rates.

Anyways, I will continue to explore this subject.

Regards,
Tom