1. Physik-Institut, Universit?t Zürich, CH-8001, Zürich, Switzerland 2. Nuclear Physics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, 2001, Johannesburg, South Africa 3. Physics Department, Rice University, 77251, Houston, Texas, USA
Abstract:
Standard μSR experiments in diamond have shown that the relative sign of the hyperfine parameters of the anisotropic Mu* state is negative (A‖/A⊥<0). We report an experimental determination of theabsolute sign of the Mu* hyperfine parameters by studying the transferred muon polarization during the thermally-activated transition from the isotropic
Mu state to Mu*. The results demonstrate that the isotropic part of the Mu* hyperfine interaction is negative. In a nitrogen-poor diamond, both the Mu disappearance rate and the enhancement of the
Mu* signals are well-described by a single Arrhenius law.