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Table 2 Summary of previous results on meson decay time constants

From: Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion

Observed decay-time (ns)

Particle

Particle decay-time (ns) [24]

Dilation factor

Velocity/c

Kinetic energy (MeV)

Figures and a few References

13 (adjusted)

K±

12.38

1.05

0.305

29.4

[12, 13]

14.81 ± 0.05

K±

12.38

1.196

0.549

95.7 ± 2.0

[11]

26 (adjusted)

π±

26.033

1.0

Low

Low

[1, 10, 12]

25.92 ± 0.04

π±

26.033

1.0

Low

Low

Figure 1

39 (adjusted)

π±

26.033

1.5

0.745

68.9

[42]

40.43 ± 0.10

π±

26.033

1.555

0.766

76.7 ± 0.5

[11]

52 (adjusted)

\({\text{K}}_{L}^{0}\)

51.16

1.016

0.18

16

[1, 13]

61.3 ± 0.07

\({\text{K}}_{L}^{0}\)

51.16

1.198

0.551

97.4 ± 0.7

[11]

  1. The error limits are standard errors from converged non-linear least squares fits with two parameters (SigmaPlot 14). (adjusted) means manual adjustment of the rate constants for the best visual fit as in Ref. [1, 13]