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Rafelski, Helga E. "Muon regeneration in muon catalyzed dt-fusion." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16012.
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Includes bibliographical references.The origin of the experimentally observed density dependence of the effective muon alpha sticking fraction will in muon catalyzed deuterium- tritium fusion has been comprehensively reanalyzed with the particular emphasis put on the density dependence of the stopping power in dense hydrogen. The main technical details and improvements in this work are: The (aμ)+ 2s and 2p states are treated independently and are assigned individual reaction rates. The essential muonic excitation rates have been recalculated taking into account finite nuclear mass effects. The stopping power for a charged projectile in liquid heavy hydrogen is modified to account for dynamic screening effects and a density dependent effective ionization potential. It is shown that the medium dependent stopping power for the (aμ)+ ion is the crucial entity controlling the density dependance of the effective sticking fraction. It is also pointed out that the muonic helium Ka X-ray yield and the sticking fraction at high density can not be simultaneously brought into agreement with the experimental results without invoking novel mechanisms suppressing Stark mixing in the (Heμ) L-shell.
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Ötting, Martin. "Ripple effect how empowered involvement drives word of mouth." Wiesbaden Gabler, 2009. http://d-nb.info/995886296/04.
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Chapman, Michael David. "The branching fraction of long-lived kaon going to muon-anti-muon." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623816.
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This thesis presents the results of a measurement of the branching fraction of the $K\sb{L}\to\mu\bar{\mu}$ decay. This decay is scGIM supressed in the Standard Model, and provides a useful test of that model. Additionally, the degree of deviation from the unitary limit provides a useful test for several other models. The experiment was performed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Alternating Gradient Synchrotron facility. The apparatus consisted of a two-magnet mass spectrometer, together with dual electromagnetic and muon particle identification systems. A total of 281 $K\sb{L}\to\mu\bar{\mu}$ events were observed. Normalizing to the 15,768 $K\sb{L}\to\pi\bar{\pi}$ events observed results in a branching fraction of $\Gamma(K\sb{L}\to\mu\bar{\mu})/\Gamma(K\sb{L}\to$ all) = (7.6 $\pm$ 0.5) $\times$ 10$\sp{-9}$.
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Hammarström, Susanna, and Esseros Camilla Johansson-. "Mun-till-mun-marknadsföring : Gräddfilen förbi mediebruset." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18515.
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Varje dag överöser företag oss människor med budskap genom reklam ochannonser. Nya kanaler såsom bloggar, ett ökat utbud av TV-kanaler ochökningen av antalet svenska och utländska tidningar har bidragit till att flerreklambudskap trängs på marknaden. Vi människor har därför tvingats läraoss att stänga av och ignorera reklam. Därför uppfattar vi inte ens en bråkdelav alla de budskap som cirkulerar runt omkring oss. För företag gäller detdärför att hitta nya sätt att komma igenom kaoset och nå fram sina kunder.Istället för att använda sig av konventionella marknadsföringsmetoder somannonsering och TV-reklam, har företag börjat försöka få människor attprata om produkten. Det ligger i människans natur att prata och diskuteraolika samhällsfenomen. Människor pratar om företag, deras tjänster ochprodukter.Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka och beskriva hur olika företaguppfattar och arbetar med mun-till-mun-marknadsföring. I vår uppsats har viett hermeneutiskt förhållningssätt. Vi har gjort en kvalitativ studie av treolika företag som valts ut genom ett så kallat strategiskt urval.I uppsatsen använde vi oss av den induktiva ansatsen. Vi använde primärdatai form av intervjuer samt sekundärdata i form av litteratur. Empirin i våruppsats består av personliga intervjuer med en reklambyrå samt två andraföretag.Slutsatsen av vår undersökning är att företag uppfattar mun-till-munmarknadsföringsom när människor pratar om produkter med varandra. Desprider antingen positiv och/eller negativ information om produkten ellertjänsten. Företag tillämpar sällan mun-till-mun-marknadsföring direkt, då detär mycket svårt. Däremot arbetar de med metoden indirekt genom att dentraditionella marknadsföringen har som syfte att få människor attuppmärksamma produkten eller tjänsten och därefter prata om den. Vi kanäven konstatera att företag har en mycket positiv inställning till mun-tillmun-marknadsföring, då den jämfört med traditionell marknadsföring äreffektivare. Företag tror att människor litar och lyssnar mer på sina vännerän på traditionell reklam. Nackdelen med mun-till-mun-marknadsföring äratt den är svår att kontrollera.Uppsatsnivå: C
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Pattenden, Paul Adam. "Muon studies of solids." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361930.
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Behr, Merle [Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] Munk, Axel [Gutachter] Munk, and Wardetzky [Gutachter] Max. "Finite Alphabet Blind Separation / Merle Behr ; Gutachter: Axel Munk, Wardetzky Max ; Betreuer: Axel Munk." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1149954728/34.
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Armstrong, Robert E. "Muon neutrino disappearance at MINOS." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380059.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Physics, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 19, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: B, page: 7630. Adviser: Jon Urheim.
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Forrest, David Alexander James. "The Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2839/.
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Outstanding areas of ambiguity within our present understanding of the nature and behaviour of neutrinos warrant the construction of a dedicated future facility capable of investigating the likely parameter space for the theta 1,3 mixing angle, the Dirac CP violating phase and clarifying the neutrino mass hierarchy. A number of potential discovery venues have been proposed including the beta beam, superbeam and neutrino factory accelerator facilities. Of these, the neutrino factory significantly outperforms the others. A neutrino factory will deliver intense beams of 10^21 neutrinos per year, produced from muons decaying in storage rings. This specification, coupled with the constraints of the short muon lifetime warrant the inclusion of a novel cooling channel to reduce the phase space volume of the beam to fall within the acceptance of the acceleration system. Ionisation cooling is the only viable cooling technique with efficacy over the lifetime of the muon, however, it has yet to be demonstrated in practice. In a full cooling channel, a muon beam will traverse a periodic absorber and accelerator lattice consisting of low Z absorbers enclosed by focusing coils and accelerating radio-frequency cavities. Energy loss in the absorbers reduces both transverse and longitudinal momentum. The latter is restored by the accelerating cavities providing a net reduction in transverse momentum and consequently reducing the phase space volume of the muon beam. The Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE), under construction at the ISIS synchrotron at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory seeks to provide both a first measurement and systematic study of ionisation cooling, demonstrated within the context of a single cell prototype of a cooling channel. The experiment will evolve incrementally toward its final configuration, with construction and scientific data taking schedules proceeding in parallel. The stated goal of MICE is to measure a fractional change in emittance of order 10% to an error of 1%. This thesis constitutes research into different aspects of MICE: design and implementation of the MICE configuration database, determination of the statistical errors and alignment tolerances associated with cooling measurements made using MICE, simulations and data analysis studying the performance of the luminosity monitor and a first analysis of MICE Step I data. A sophisticated information management solution based on a bi-temporal relational database and web service suite has been designed, implemented and tested. This system will enable the experiment to record geometry, calibration and cabling information in addition to beamline settings (including but not limited to magnet and target settings) and alarm handler limits. This information is essential both to provide an experimental context to the analysis user studying data at a later time and to experimenters seeking to reinstate previous settings. The database also allows corrections to be stored, for example to the geometry, whereby a later survey may clarify an incomplete description. The old and new geometries are both stored with reference to the same period of validity, indexed by the time they are added to the configuration database. This allows MICE users to recall both the best-known geometry of the experiment at a given time by default, as well as the history of what was known about the geometry as required. Such functionality is two dimensional in time, hence the choice of a bi-temporal database paradigm, enabling the collaboration to run new analyses with the most up to date knowledge of the experimental configuration and also repeat previous analyses which were based upon incomplete information. From Step III of MICE onwards, the phase space volume, or emittance, of the beam will be measured by two scintillating fibre trackers placed before and after the cooling cell. Since the two emittance measurements are made upon a similar sample of muons, the measurement errors are influenced by correlations. This thesis will show through an empirical approach that correlations act to reduce the statistical error by an order of magnitude. In order to meet its goals MICE must also quantify its systematic errors. A misalignment study is presented which investigates the sensitivity of the scintillating fibre trackers to translational and rotational misalignment. Tolerance limits of 1 mm and 0.3 mrad respectively allow MICE to meet the requirement that systematic errors due to misalignment of the trackers contribute no more than 10% of the total error. At present, MICE is in Step I of its development: building and commissioning a muon beamline which will be presented to a cooling channel in later stages of MICE. A luminosity monitor has been built and commissioned to provide a measurement of particle production from the target, normalise particle rate at all detectors and verify the physics models which will be used throughout the lifetime of MICE and onwards through to the development of a neutrino factory. Particle identification detectors have already been installed and allow the species of particles to be distinguished according to their time of flight. This has enabled a study of particle identification, particle momenta and simulated and experimental beam profiles at each time of flight detector. The widths of the beam profiles are sensitive to multiple scattering and magnetic effects, providing an opportunity to quantify the success of the simulations in modelling these behaviours. Such a comparison was also used to detect offsets in the beam centre position which can be caused by misalignments of the detectors or relative misalignments in magnet positions causing asymmetrical skew in the magnetic axis. These effects were quantified in this analysis. Particle identification combined with the earlier statistical analysis will be used to show that the number of muons required to meet the statistical requirements of MICE can be produced within a realistic time frame for each beam configuration considered.
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Hyndman, Alexander. "Muon neutrino disappearance at T2K." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2515.
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This thesis measures the muon neutrino oscillation at T2K using the first data of the experiment. It concentrates on developing an original selection at Super-Kamionde, the T2K far detector, that improves the performance of the current standard selection. A new, more precise measurement of the oscillation parameters sin2 2 23 and Δm2 32 is performed using this new selection. T2K is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment located in Japan which began data taking in January 2010. It uses the world’s most powerful accelerator generated beam of muon neutrinos intersected by two detectors. The near detector is located 280 m from the beam source while Super-Kamiokande lies 295 km away. Super-Kamiokande is a 50 kt water Cherenkov detector which measures the neutrino beam after oscillation. The determination of the oscillation parameters comes from looking at the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the beam. For this purpose event selection at Super-Kamiokande is optimised for neutrino flavour identification and energy reconstruction, specifically, selecting muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic events, primarily with single muon-like Cherenkov rings produced by the outgoing muon. This thesis evaluates two new methods of enhancing the selection to obtain a higher sensitivity from the data, firstly by exploring a multi-variate analysis approach to charged-current quasi-elastic selection, and secondly through the exploration of an additional charged-current single charged pion channel. Out of these only the multivariate based selection produced an improvement in the sensitivity to oscillation with respect to the standard selection. A first analysis of the data collected until March 11th 2011 using the above described improvement is presented in this thesis. A value of 2:68+0:12 −0:18 × 10−3 eV2 was recorded for Δm2 32 and 0:999+0:001 −0:009 for sin2 2 23. 2
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Barker, Joel. "Muon studies of unconventional superconductors." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/105973/.
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This thesis presents muon spin rotation and relaxation (μSR) studies of various superconducting materials. μSR studies have been complemented with laboratory measurements of heat capacity, resistivity, and magnetization. This work contributes to the body of work surrounding noncentrosymmetric superconductors (NCS) and unconventional superconductivity. The intermetallic compound La7Ir3 is found to break time-reversal symmetry upon transitioning into the superconducting state, elucidated by muon spin relaxation. The pairing symmetry appears fully gapped, and is well described by an isotropic s-wave model. Further theoretical analysis of the point group symmetry could investigate the allowed superconducting states potentially existing here. The physical properties of the NCS Re3Ta are well described by the conventional BCS theory of superconductivity. μSR suggests unusual narrowing of the vortex lattice signal in a region close to Tc, interpreted as motional narrowing due to thermal motion of vortices. This is supported by irreversible magnetization in a sizable region in the phase diagram. Ginzburg number and quantum resistance calculations place Re3Ta intermediate between the high-Tc and conventional low-Tc superconductors. LuRuB2 and YRuB2, superconducting members of the ternary boride family of materials, are studied using μSR. Zero-field measurements detect spin fluctuations exhibiting critical slowing down as the temperature is lowered, suggesting that these materials lie near a quantum phase transition. These weak fluctuations coexist with the superconductivity, which is well described by an isotropic, s-wave model for the pairing symmetry. The semi-metal Lu3Os4Ge13 is investigated using transverse-field and zerofield μSR. The superfluid density is well described by a model containing two superconducting gaps, supporting previously reported heat capacity measurements. Zero-field measurements below Tc reveal a signal hinting at broken time-reversal symmetry, however, it does not coincide with the bulk superconducting transition. Further theoretical work could determine whether this is the first observation of a novel three-gap multiband superconducting ground state.
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Cuellar, Eduardo, and Eduardo Cuellar. "Tokugawa Zen Master Shidō Munan." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621441.
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Shidō Munan (至道無難, 1602-1676) was an early Tokugawa Zen master mostly active in Edo. He was the teacher of Shōju Rōjin, who is in turn considered the main teacher of Hakuin Ekaku. He is best known for the phrase that one must“die while alive,”made famous by D.T. Suzuki. Other than this, his work has not been much analyzed, nor his thought placed into the context of the early Tokugawa period he inhabited. It is the aim of this work to analyze some of the major themes in his writings, the Jishōki (自性記), Sokushinki (即心記), Ryūtakuji ShozōHōgo (龍沢寺所蔵法語), and the Dōka (道歌). Special attention is paid to his views on Neo-Confucianism, Pure Land thought, and Shinto- traditions which can be shown through their prevalence in his writings to have placed Zen on the defensive during this time period. His teachings on death are also expanded on and analyzed, as well as some of the other common themes in his writing, such as his teachings on kōan practice and advice for monastics. In looking at these themes, it is possible to both compare and contrast him from some of his better-known contemporaries, such as Bankei and Suzuki Shōsan. Additionally, selected passages from his writings are offered in translation.
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Morgenthaler, Linda. "Virales Marketing Treiber, Erfolgsfaktoren und Risiken /." St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02602464003/$FILE/02602464003.pdf.
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Ruoss, Sven. "Erfolgsfaktoren des Viral Marketing." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02600278002/$FILE/02600278002.pdf.
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Passos, Leonidas Paixao. "Growth and water status responses of mung bean (Vigna mungo L.) and other dicot species to osmotic stress." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184668.
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Intact dark- and light-grown mung bean (Vigna mungo L.), black bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), pea (Pisum sativum L.) cowpea (Vigna unguicul a ta (L.) Wa lp.) and squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) seedlings on hydroponic medium were osmotically stressed by exposing their roots to PEG 8000 of various concentrations (-0.2 to -0.6 MPa) to determine stress effects on growth and tissue water status. Growth of dark-grown mung bean hypocotyls ceases within 40 sec upon exposure to any level of stress, and resumes within 10 to 45 min. Growth of all other seedlings were measured usually after 3 to 24 h stress, and in 3 h, elongation is inhibited in dark-grown and is stopped in light-grown tissues. In dark-grown mung bean, black bean and squash hypocotyls and pea epicotyls, growth rates after 24 h stress were found to be proportional to the Ψ of the medium. In mung bean hypocotyls, growth stopped before any change in Ψ or Ψ(π) occurred in the growing region. In this tissue and also in dark-grown squash hypocotyls, pea epicotyls, and in lightgrown cowpea hypocotyls, equivalent reductions in Ψ and Ψ(π) were evident in the growing region after 3 h, so turgor remained constant. In other species, osmotic adjustment with turgor maintenance was evident after 24 h in both the growing and expanded regions. The results with mung bean hypocotyls provided the first demonstration that stress causes an almost instantaneous stress-caused cessation of elongation in dicots. Since data from all plants showed that stress causes growth rate inhibition or cessation without a concomittant decrease in Ψ(p), it is concluded that turgor is not the factor regulating growth. More likely, stress-caused growth and water status changes are responses to an earlier signal, such as a stress-caused reduction in the apoplastic Ψ.
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Islam, Md Rafiqul. "The changing Garo Adivasi culture of Bangladesh : a case study of marriage rituals /." Tromsø : Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitetet i Tromsø, 2008. http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/handle/10037/1552.
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Woudstra, Martin Jacob. "Precision of the ATLAS muon spectrometer." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2002. http://dare.uva.nl/document/65010.
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Telling, M. T. F. "Muon studies of paramagnetic spin fluctuations." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387708.
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Serna, Alvaro. "Radiative muon capture on nuclear targets." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39425.
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A large acceptance pair spectrometer to detect photons from the radiative
muon capture (RMC) process was built. The spectrometer was used to measure
the RMC branching ratio for AI, Si, Ca, Mo, Sn and Pb. Two recent theoretical
models were used to extract the RMC branching ratio in Ca. The experin1ental
result is in good agreement with the world average value, but yields a value for
the pseudoscalar coupling constant, gp, which is lower than the Goldberger-Treiman
PCAC prediction. In the absence of a theoretical model to predict the R11C rates
for Al and 5i, only the branching ratios for these targets are reported. For Mo,
5n, and Pb, the branching ratios found were consistent with the Fermi gas n10del
for which a nill contribution from the pseudoscalar coupling was assumed. Good
agreement was found between the experimental results and what is predicted fron1
using the simple, closure approximation.
The RMC world data indicates a close connection between the branching ratios
and Q, where Q is the ratio between the difference and the sum of neutrons a.nd
protons for any element, (Q = ~Z~~J). It is suggested that future experiments study
different isotopes to isolate the Z and the Q dependence of the R11C rates.
This experiment also served as a test ground for the RMC experin1ent in liquid
hydrogen which is now in progress at TRIUMF.Ph. D.
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Henderson, C. G. L. "Simulation of muon-catalysed fusion experiments." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16010.
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Includes bibliographical references.A Monte Carlo code MUGLU has been, written for the simulation of experiments to measure alpha-muon sticking in muon catalysed deuterium-tritium fusion. The experiments simulated are those which measure the ratio of αμ to α from fusion in a low density gas target by detecting collinear alpha-neutron coincidences and relying on the differing stopping powers of the α and αμ ions. The Monte Carlo simulations provide estimates of geometrical and detection efficiency factors required for the calculation of the sticking coefficient from the experimental measurements. Simulations have been made of alternative experimental geometries in order to investigate the α-neutron coincidence signature and other characteristics of existing and proposed systems. The characteristics of a neutron detector used in, one of the current sticking experiments (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) have been studied experimentally, as well as simulated, using the T(d,n)α reaction to emulate the fusion source. The results obtained show that the dependence of the neutron detection efficiency on the position and angle of neutron incidence on the detector is significant and should be taken into account when determining sticking coefficients from alpha-neutron coincidence measurements.
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Bouchet, Françoise-Geneviève. "Kaj Munk et la politique allemande." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040072.
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Dramaturge-journaliste-poète et pasteur danois, Kaj Munk naquit en 1898 et mourut en janvier 1944, assassiné par les allemands. A l’âge de six ans, il avait déjà perdu ses deux parents. Très tôt il chercha la vocation qui donnerait un sens à sa vie. Il se nourrit entre autres de Shakespeare, d'Oehlenschläger, de Nietzsche et de Kierkegaard. Il admirait les hommes forts qui avaient un seul but et mettaient toute leur existence au service de cette mission unique qu'il appelait "idéalisme", d'où le grand drame de 1923, « Un idéaliste ». Il vit en Mussolini et Hitler les "idéalistes" qu'il cherchait. Au fur et à mesure du déploiement du national-socialisme, il abandonna cette image réconfortante, ce qui donna naissance à des pièces telles « Il est assis au bord du creuset » en 1938 et « Niels Ebbesen » en 1940. Lorsque les allemands envahissent le Danemark le 9 avril 1940, Kaj Munk trouve sa vocation - un idéalisme kierkegaardien en réaction contre les ennemis de son pays. Cet idéalisme aboutira au martyre, preuve irréfutable de la foi de Kaj Munk en dieu et en son pays, et révélation du sens de sa vieThe danish playwright-journalist-poet and priest Kaj Munk was born in 1898 and died in January 1944 when he was murdered by German SS. At the age of six, he already missed his mother and father. He looked very early for the vocation able to give a meaning to his life. He read chiefly Shakespeare, Oehlenschläger, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. He admired strong men who had only one aim and dedicated their lives exclusively to this mission which he called "idealism", hence the big drama of 1923 “Herod the king”. He saw in Mussolini and Hitler the "idealists" he was looking for. When national-socialism developed, he left gradually this gratifying image and wrote plays as “He sits at the melting-pot” in 1938 and “Niels Ebbesen” in 1940. When German people invaded his country on 9th April 1940, Kaj Munk found his vocation - a Kierkegaard idealism in reaction against the enemies of his country. This idealism led to martyrdom, which proved irrefutably Kaj Munk's faith in god and in his country, as well as it disclosed the meaning of his life
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Bouchet, Françoise-Geneviève. "Kaj Munk et la politique allemande." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37596280j.
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Klasila, T. (Tarleena), and L. (Laura) Koivukangas. "”Se on mun työtapa ja se on mun filosofia, ja siellä on mun pedagogiikka”:opettajien kertomuksia positiivisen pedagogiikan toteuttamisesta." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201711103091.
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Tiivistelmä. Tämän pro gradun tarkoituksena on kuvata narratiivisuuden keinoin luokanopettajien kertomuksia positiivisen pedagogiikan toteuttamisesta. Positiivinen pedagogiikka keskittyy oppilaan luonteenvahvuuksiin sekä voimavaroihin. Pedagogiikan pyrkimyksenä on ennaltaehkäistä ongelmia sekä parantaa yksilön oppimista ja hyvinvointia positiivisuuden kautta. Tutkielman tavoitteena on saada syvempi ymmärrys positiivisen pedagogiikan käytännön toteuttamisesta sekä löytää ideoita muille tästä opetus- ja kasvatussuuntauksesta kiinnostuneille. Tutkimuskysymyksenä on: 1. Mitä opettajat kertovat positiivisen pedagogiikan toteuttamisesta peruskoulussa?
Tutkimusaineisto on kerätty kolmelta positiivista pedagogiikkaa toteuttavalta peruskoulun opettajalta helmikuussa 2017. Aineisto koostuu kahdesta kerronnallisesta teemahaastattelusta sekä yhdestä kerronnallisesta kirjoitelmasta. Tutkimukseen osallistuneet opettajat olivat kattavasti perehtyneet positiiviseen pedagogiikkaan ja toteuttaneet sitä useamman vuoden ajan. Aineisto analysoitiin sisällönanalyysillä, jossa ensin aineisto redusoitiin eli pelkistettiin yksittäisiksi ilmaisuiksi, sen jälkeen klusteroitiin eli ilmaisut käsiteltiin ja ryhmiteltiin teemojen mukaan, ja viimeiseksi aineisto abstrahoitiin eli muodostettiin pääteemat.
Positiivisen pedagogiikan toteuttamisessa keskeiseksi nähtiin luonteenvahvuuksien etsiminen, ja niiden pedagoginen hyödyntäminen. Opettajat pitivät tärkeänä myös resilienssin vahvistamista, jonka he määrittelivät sisäisen puheen, onnistumisten, kasvun asenteen ja minäpystyvyyden kautta. Vuorovaikutuksen kehittämisen avulla opettajat rakensivat turvallista ilmapiiriä, joka lisäsi vahvuuksien kehittämistä ja harjoittelemista. Opettajat kuvasivat useita harjoitteita, joiden kautta näitä keskeisiä taitoja pystytään käytännössä harjoittelemaan. Vahvuuskielen käyttö sekä opettajan oma esimerkki nähtiin tärkeänä oppilaiden omaksuessa positiivista ajattelutapaa. Positiivista pedagogiikkaa opettajat toteuttivat integroiden sekä teematuntien, -päivien ja -viikkojen muodossa. Opettajat kokivat pedagogiikan toteuttamisen vahvistavan myös omaa opettajuutta ja hyvinvointia.
Luotettavuutta vahvistavia tekijöitä ovat tutkielmassa tutkijatriangulaatio sekä aineistotriangulaatio. Tutkielma pyrkii myös vahvistettavuuteen eli tehdyt ratkaisut avataan selkeästi lukijalle, jolloin pystytään arvioimaan tutkijoiden tekemää päättelyä. Tulokset eivät ole sellaisenaan yleistettävissä, vaan ne toimivat näkökulmana avaamassa positiivisen pedagogiikan käytännön toteuttamista. Narratiiviisessa tutkimuksessa on tärkeää, että tutkittavien kertomukset pääsevät kuuluviin. Jatkotutkimuksissa olisi tärkeää saada kattavampaa käytännön tietoa aiheesta. Erityisesti olisi mielenkiintoista tutkia positiivisen pedagogiikan vaikutuksia sosioekonomiseen asemaan sekä kiusaamisen ehkäisemiseen.
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Lou, Kegang. "Direct measurement of the final-sticking probability in muon catalyzed dt fusion using the "Survived muon method" /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1993. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=10410.
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Sieling, Hannes [Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] Munk, and Dominic [Akademischer Betreuer] Schuhmacher. "Statistical Multiscale Segmentation: Inference, Algorithms and Applications / Hannes Sieling. Gutachter: Axel Munk ; Dominic Schuhmacher. Betreuer: Axel Munk." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1049580907/34.
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Sieling, Hannes Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] [Munk, and Dominic [Akademischer Betreuer] Schuhmacher. "Statistical Multiscale Segmentation: Inference, Algorithms and Applications / Hannes Sieling. Gutachter: Axel Munk ; Dominic Schuhmacher. Betreuer: Axel Munk." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1049580907/34.
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Kenney, Christopher John. "A measurement of the decay rate for the process kaon(L) going to positive muon negative muon." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623786.
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A sample of 87 events of the GIM suppressed decay K$\sb{\rm L} \to \mu\sp+\mu\sp-$ were observed in an experiment performed in 1988 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Concurrently, 8,887 examples of the CP-violating decay K$\sb{\rm L} \to \pi\sp+\pi\sp-$ were also seen. The apparatus consisted of a double-magnet spectrometer as well as electromagnetic and muon detector systems. From the previously measured branching ratio for K$\sb{\rm L} \to \pi\sp+\pi\sp-$ and the different instrumental acceptances of the detector for the two decays, the data sample was normalized to the effective number of K$\sb{\rm L}$ decays observed. A value for the ratio (K$\sb{\rm L} \to \mu\sp+\mu\sp-)$/(K$\sb{\rm L} \to$ anything) of (5.7 $\pm$ 0.6(stat.) $\pm$ 0.3(syst.)) $\times$ 10$\sp{-9}$ was obtained.
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Witkowski, Michael Thomas. "A measurement of the branching ratio of long-lived neutral kaon going to positive muon negative muon." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623833.
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The branching ratio $B(K\sbsp{L}{0} \to \mu\sp+\mu\sp-)$ has been measured using data obtained during running periods in 1988, 1989 and 1990. The data obtained in the 1990 running period are the latest and last from BNL experiment E791. During the three running periods, 87, 274 and 346 respective candidate events were observed, forming an overall sample of 707 $\mu\sp+\mu\sp-$ events. This number represents the largest sample to-date of $K\sbsp{L}{0} \to \mu\sp+\mu\sp-$ events. The result for the branching fraction using the total data set is $B(K\sbsp{L}{0} \to \mu\sp+\mu\sp-)$ = (6.86 $\pm$ 0.37) $\times$ 10$\sp{-9}$. This result is very near the unitarity bound of 6.81 $\times$ 10$\sp{-9}$ and is consistent with earlier measurements.
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Diek, René Pascal. "Die Beurteilung der Lebensqualität bei Patienten mit tumorbedingtem Kiefer-Gesichtsdefekt /." Marburg : Görich und Weiershäuser, 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=012937957&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Musser, James Raymond. "Measurement of the Michel parameter rho in muon decay." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3297.
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The TWIST Collaboration has measured the Michel parameter rho in normal muon
decay,u+ -> e+VeVu. In the standard model of particle physics,rho = 3/4. Deviations
from this value require mixing of left- and right-handed muon and electron couplings in
the muon-decay Lagrangian. We find rho = 0:75080+-0:00032(stat.)+-0:00097(syst.) +- 0:00023, where the last uncertainty represents the dependence of rho on the Michel
parameter n. This result sets new limits on the WL - WR mixing angle in left-right
symmetric models.
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Kwok, Chi-ho. "Characterization of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid n-malonyltransferase from mung bean hypocotyls." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2324222X.
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Schulze, Osthoff Dirk Reinhold. "Mund-, kiefer-, gesichtschirurgische und allgemeine Therapiegrundsätze an der Klinik und Poliklinik für Mund-, Kiefer-, Gesichtschirurgie der Universität Würzburg." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=966017730.
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Schmidt-Hieber, Anselm Johannes Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] Munk, and Lutz [Akademischer Betreuer] [Dümbgen. "Nonparametric Methods in Spot Volatility Estimation / Anselm Johannes Schmidt-Hieber. Gutachter: Axel Munk ; Lutz Dümbgen. Betreuer: Axel Munk." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1044051183/34.
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Frick, Sophie [Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] Munk, and Thorsten [Akademischer Betreuer] Hohage. "Change point estimation in noisy Hammerstein integral equations / Sophie Frick. Gutachter: Axel Munk ; Thorsten Hohage. Betreuer: Axel Munk." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1043514147/34.
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Schmidt-Hieber, Anselm Johannes Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] [Munk, and Lutz [Akademischer Betreuer] Dümbgen. "Nonparametric Methods in Spot Volatility Estimation / Anselm Johannes Schmidt-Hieber. Gutachter: Axel Munk ; Lutz Dümbgen. Betreuer: Axel Munk." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1044051183/34.
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Frick, Sophie Verfasser], Axel [Akademischer Betreuer] [Munk, and Thorsten [Akademischer Betreuer] Hohage. "Change point estimation in noisy Hammerstein integral equations / Sophie Frick. Gutachter: Axel Munk ; Thorsten Hohage. Betreuer: Axel Munk." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1043514147/34.
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Cicero, Valentina. "Development of the SHiP downstream muon detector." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/19290/.
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SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) is a beam dump experiment proposed at CERN SPS, currently in the design stage. SHiP aims to observe long lived particles very weakly coupled with ordinary matter, as expected in a large number of Hidden Sector models, that are able do describe Dark matter, neutrino oscillation and the origins of the Barionic Asimmetry of universe.
In this thesis the development of the SHiP Downstream Muon Detector is described. This subdetector aims to identify with high efficiency muons produced by signal processes and to distinguish them from neutrino- and beam-induced background ones. In order to effectively distinguish background events mistakenly reconstructed as signal vertexes due to their spatial overlapping, a time resolution better than 200 ps is mandatory. Therefore, it is extremely important that the detector components are optimized with respect to time resolution.
The detector employs active layers made of plastic scintillator tiles, each coupled to silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). This thesis focuses on the development of tile prototypes that are able to meet the detector time resolution requirements, through the study of various aspects of the tile design.
The improved design defined with the contribution of this thesis work has become the current baseline design and will be tested with a prototype in early 2020 at the Frascati INFN Laboratories.
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Miyagawa, Paul Shinichi. "Muon energy calibration of the MINOS detectors." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409818.
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Brooks, Stephen J. "Muon capture schemes for the neutrino factory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7b724028-e4ef-4248-9d42-505e571c9e19.
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The proposed neutrino factory, a facility for precision measurements of neutrino oscillations, requires directional neutrino beams to reach the required sensitivities. Among the few sources of such beams is the decay of muons travelling at relativistic speeds, therefore an intense source of muons and subsequent rapid acceleration must be designed so they can reach the required energy before decaying. This thesis considers several stages in this process: pions are produced from a proton beam hitting a target and pion yield optima are determined as a function of target design parameters and the proton energy. Issues related to producing the original proton beam are also discussed. The pions decay to a beam of muons, confined by a channel of solenoids and other components known as the muon front end. A design for this is found that meets the requirement of 10^21 muons per operational year [1]. The computer code MARS15 [2] is used to simulate the target, with benchmarks against GEANT4 [3] and initial results from the HARP experiment [4]. The author's code Muon1 [5] is used for muon tracking, with its techniques also explained in the thesis. To find the highest-yielding arrangement of magnets and accelerating components from the target onwards, Muon1 incorporates an optimisation feature where almost all parameters of the beamline can be varied. This produces a high-dimensionality search space where the best muon yield is sought using a genetic algorithm. As each individual evaluation of a design is itself a time-consuming simulation with tens of thousands of particles, the code has been deployed as a distributed computing project that is able to perform millions of simulations per optimisation. [1] "GROUP REPORT: Physics at a Neutrino Factory", C. Albright et al. (Eds. S. Geer and H. Schellman), Report to the Fermilab Directorate, FERMILAB-FN-692, hep-ex/0008064 (2000). [2] "The MARS Code System" version 15.07, by N.V. Mokhov, available from http://www-ap.fnal.gov/MARS/ [3] "GEANT4 - a simulation toolkit", S. Agostinelli et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 506, pp.250-303 (2003), available from http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/ [4] "Status and prospects of the HARP experiment", M. Ellis, J. Phys. G 29, pp.1613-1620 (2003). [5] Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design project website, http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1
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Steele, Andrew J. "Quantum magnetism probed with muon-spin relaxation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:030d7e91-f38e-433f-9539-652b0f4996cc.
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This thesis presents the results of muon-spin relaxation (µ+SR) studies into magnetic materials, and demonstrates how these results can be exploited to quantify the materials’ low moments and reduced dimensionality. Dipole-field simulations, traditionally used to estimate likely muon sites within a crystal structure, are described. A novel Bayesian approach is introduced which allows bounds to be extracted on magnetic moment sizes and magnetic structures—previously very difficult using µ+SR—based on reasonable assumptions about positions in which muons are likely to stop. The simulations are introduced along with relevant theory, and MµCalc, a platform-independent program which I have developed for performing the calculations is described. The magnetic ground states of the isostructural double perovskites Ba2NaOsO6 and Ba2LiOsO6 are investigated with µ+SR. In Ba2NaOsO6 long-range magnetic order is detected via the onset of a spontaneous muon-spin precession signal below Tc = 7.2(2) K, while in Ba2LiOsO6 a static but spatially-disordered internal field is found below 8 K. Bayesian analysis is used to show that the magnetic ground state in Ba2NaOsO6 is most likely to be low-moment (˜ 0.2µB) ferromagnetism and not canted antiferromagnetism. Ba2LiOsO6 is antiferromagnetic and a spin-flop transition is found at 5.5 T. A reduced osmium moment is common to both compounds, probably arising from a combination of spin–orbit coupling and frustration. Results are also presented from µ+SR investigations concerning magnetic ordering in several families of layered, quasi–two-dimensional molecular antiferromagnets based on transition metal ions such as S = ½ Cu2+ bridged with organic ligands such as pyrazine. µ+SR allows us to identify ordering temperatures and study the critical behaviour close to TN , which is difficult using conventional probes. Combining this with measurements of in-plane magnetic exchange J and predictions from quantum Monte Carlo simulations allows assessment of the degree of isolation of the 2D layers through estimates of the effective inter-layer exchange coupling and in-layer correlation lengths at TN. Likely metal-ion moment sizes and muon stopping sites in these materials are identified, based on probabilistic analysis of dipole-fields and of muon–fluorine dipole–dipole coupling in fluorinated materials.
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Battu, Sivaram Kumar. "Data Acquisition System for Muon Lifetime Experiment." UKnowledge, 2006. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/230.
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I designed, developed and deployed a data acquisition (DAQ) system to meet the needsof the "??Lan" nuclear physics experiment. The main goal of the experiment is to measurethe positive muon lifetime to a precision of 1 part per million. This represents more thanan order of magnitude increase in precision beyond the current world average. The DAQdesign is motivated by very high data rate this experiment will produce. This experimentis being performed with the proton accelerator at Paul Scherrer Institut in Villigen,Switzerland. I have setup a mock experimental setup at the University of Kentucky. Thedesign and development of the DAQ software was conducted using this mock setup andwas deployed at Paul Scherrer Institut in the fall 2005.
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Mund, Christian [Verfasser]. "Intraoperative Radiotherapie des primären Rektumkarzinoms / Christian Mund." Aachen : Hochschulbibliothek der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1043613897/34.
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Aston, Georgina Margaret. "Molecular dynamics with muon spin relaxation/rotation." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338062.
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Hubbard, Penny Louise. "Molecular and electron dynamics with muon spectroscopy." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268573.
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Devenish, Nicholas. "Muon antineutrino disappearance in the MINOS experiment." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58686/.
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Parzyk, Natalia A. "Muon and neutron studies of unconventional superconductors." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/67561/.
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The mechanism of unconventional superconductivity is still mysterious, despite extensive studies. Muon spectroscopy (μSR) and small angle neutron scattering (SANS) studies of some unconventional superconductors were carried out. The NCS superconductors: Ru7B3 and α-BiPd, Heusler compounds: ZrNi2Ga and NbNi2Ga and the marginal superconductor ZrB12 were investigated. This thesis reports new phenomena observed in those systems and advances the knowledge of the ground state properties of unconventional superconductors. Polycrystalline samples and single crystals of the non-centrosymmetric superconductor (NCS) Ru7B3 were studied. Evidence for time-reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking in the superconducting state of Ru7B3 were found using μSR. So far, it is the third known NCS superconductor which breaks TRS. Potentially multigap behaviour was observed. The presence of two distinct superconducting gaps was suggested in polycrystalline Ru7B3 using μSR. Additionally, SANS and μSR measurements indicate unusual behaviour for the observed distorted hexagonal flux line lattice (FLL) in Ru7B3, yet the nature of this behaviour remains inconclusive. μSR studies of another NCS superconductor α-BiPd give evidence that two superconducting gaps are present in α-BiPd, either two s-wave gaps or s-wave and d-wave gaps exist in α-BiPd. Additionally, unusual temperature evolution of the upper critical field of α-BiPd was observed. Two superconducting compounds belonging to the Heusler family, ZrNi2Ga and NbNi2Ga, were investigated using μSR. Temperature dependence of the penetration depth of ZrNi2Ga suggests an s-wave, conventional behaviour in this superconductor. Evidence of a structural change in the morphology of the FLL was observed: a square FLL potentially exists at low temperatures and a hexagonal FLL is present closer to Tc. Additionally, μSR experiments suggest that TRS is preserved in both measured Heusler compounds. SANS studies of a marginal, low-k superconductor ZrB12 were carried out. SANS studies were performed in a range of temperature and magnetic field so to access different parts of the superconducting phase diagram of ZrB12. A square vortex lattice was found in all measured temperatures and fields.
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Cerna, Cédric. "MUNU : étude de la diffusion neutrino-électron." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000GRE10197.
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Munu est une experience dediee a l'etude de la diffusion neutrino-electron de laquelle peut etre deduite une limite sur le moment magnetique du neutrino. L'experience est situee aupres d'un reacteur de la centrale nucleaire de bugey (france). La detection est basee sur une chambre a projection temporelle (tpc) immergee dans 10 tonnes de scintillateur liquide agissant comme blindage actif anti-compton. La signature d'une diffusion neutrino-electron est un unique electron de recul completement contenu dans la tpc. L'interet physique d'une telle recherche est decrit dans une premiere partie, ainsi que la conception generale du detecteur. Les principes de la calibration de l'anti-compton ainsi que leurs resultats sont exposes. Ils incluent le controle en ligne de la reponse des photomultiplicateurs ainsi que le suivi de la transparence du scintillateur. Les performances attendues et observees de la tpc fonctionnant avec du cf4 sont passees en revue. La discrimination des evenements est faite en utilisant l'emission de lumiere et la collection des charges ainsi que la topologie des traces. Une estimation de l'activite des materiaux basee sur des evenements alpha et beta est donnee. Ces evenements sont aussi ulitises pour mesurer certains parametres de la tpc comme la carte de gain de l'anode, la longueur de derive ou la longueur d'absorbtion des electrons. Il est montre dans quelle mesure les electrons simples partiellements contenus peuvent etre rejetes. Une premiere analyse dans une gamme d'energie sub-mev des electrons simples totalements contenus est faite en terme de section efficace faible et en terme de moment magnetique du neutrino. Enfin une estimation preliminaire de l'activite du detecteur apres sa remise a niveau
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Auchet, Marc. "Kaj Munk ou la logique de l'imaginaire." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040040.
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Bien qu'ayant joue un rôle déterminant dans la vie et l'œuvre du dramaturge danois Kaj Munk (1898-1944), les phénomènes inconscients n'ont jamais fait l'objet d'une étude spécialisée. A partir des ouvrages classiques de g. Bachelard, g. Durand, c. G. Jung et m. Ellade, la thèse Kaj Munk ou la logique de l'imaginaire propose une grille de lecture entièrement nouvelle de l'ensemble de l'œuvre. Cette mise en perspective montre qu’un réseau associatif à caractère obsessionnel y occupe une place centrale: une figure idéalisée de mère qui rappelle l'image archétypique de la vierge à l'enfant. Parallèlement, la notion de défense de la vie est un des thèmes récurrents de cette œuvre. L'analyse de l'univers imaginaire de l'auteur et la lecture symbolique de son théâtre révèlent le rôle capital que jouait la notion de vie et de victoire sur la mort dans son inconscientImportant role in the life and work of the Danish playwright Kaj Munk (1898-1944), they have never been the object of a close study. Branching off from the classical works of g. Bachelard, g. Durand, c. G. Jung and m. Eliade, the thesis Kaj Munk or the logic of the imaginary proposes guidelines for an entirely new reading of the body of Kaj Munk's work. This way of looking at the problem shows that a series of associated obsessions takes up the center stage: i. E. An idealized mother figure which reminds the reader of the archetypal virgin with child. At the same time, the idea of the protection of life is one the recurrent themes in this work. The analysis of the imaginary world of the author and the interpretation of the symbols in his plays reveal the role played by life and victory over death in his subconscious
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Thomay, Christian. "Muon scattering tomography for nuclear security applications." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683733.
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The threat of illicit trafficking of special nuclear material (SNM) has brought about an interest in detection methods capable of identifying high-Z material in a non-invasive fashion on relatively short timescales. Muon Scattering Tomography (MST) is a method by which information about the material content of a cargo container can be obtained by measuring cosmic ray muons before and after passing through the container. In this way significant quantities of SNM that are being illegally shipped at freight ports can be detected. In a real-life application, it is important for practical reasons that containers carrying SNM can be identified swiftly, on a time scale of minutes. MST requires large detectors above and below the volume of interest. Resistive plate chambers (RP Cs ) were chosen for this, which have good spatial and timing resolution, good hit finding efficiency, and can be produced on large scales. RPC prototypes were built, and the performance of these RPCs is detailed, together with the software framework developed for the analysis of the detector data. Two novel detection algorithms were developed, intended to find SNM hidden in cargo containers. In order to test the algorithms, a simulation study with large-scale detectors tuned to the performance of the RPCs was performed. A wide range of cargo was simulated in this study based on real-life cargo data, showing the performance of the new algorithms in terms of the fraction of containers can be cleared in a given time frame. It is shown that 84% of all containers can be cleared in a minute or less, showing that the methods meet the design goals. An application of the developed methods to 3D imaging of legacy nuclear waste drums is also shown. Here, longer scan times are possible, and dimensions on the order of centimeters can be resolved inside concrete-filled waste drums.
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Carter, Allyson. "Featural Morphology: Evidence from Muna Irrealis Affixation." University of Arizona Linguistics Circle, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311814.
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Viel, David William. "Muon transfer from muonic deuterium to carbon." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623853.
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Negative muons were brought to rest in a gas mixture of 30 torr CH$\sb4$ and 570 torr D$\sb2$, using the cyclotron trap at PSI. The muons formed muonic deuterium atoms which diffused through the mixture and transferred their muons to the carbon of the CH$\sb4$ molecules. A planar germanium detector and a silicon detector were used to observe x-rays from the initial muon cascade in the deuterium, and from subsequent cascade in the muonic carbon after transfer. A transfer rate of (4.5 $\pm$ 1.8) $\times$ 10$\sp{10}$/sec was found which agrees well with a previous result measured at 50 bar of (5.1 $\pm$ 1.0) $\times$ 10$\sp{10}$/sec. Transfer was found to occur predominantly to the n = 4 state in $\mu$C. The initial angular momentum state distribution in the $\mu$C was constructed using the cascade program of V. Markushin, and found to be consistent with any combination of two possible initial distributions (I 0.252 (4s) + 0.409 (4f) + 0.339 (4p)) and (II 0.284 (4d)+ 0.377 (4f) + 0.339 (4p)). The transfer theories of Gershtein and that of Holtzwarth and Pfeifer both agree well with the measured transfer rate and initial energy state, but not with the initial angular momentum distributions. The 2S population in $\mu$C was also determined to lie between 5% and 11%, which is higher than the 3% population in direct capture.