In the absence of comprehensive theory to explain the fluctuations of a given observed pionic X-ray yield as a function of the atomic number of the host atom, a simple parameterization of the negative pion distribution among various angular momentum s...
In the absence of comprehensive theory to explain the fluctuations of a given observed pionic X-ray yield as a function of the atomic number of the host atom, a simple parameterization of the negative pion distribution among various angular momentum states in its initial bound level was introduced in a standard pion cascade code. From the behavior of this initial distribution parameter which reasonably fits the observed fluctuations some information about the pion capture in the initial atomic orbit was deduced.