I guess there is a chance that they saw X-ray spectra from Pionic Deuterium as well as inferring from muons of specific energy. It will be interesting to see what he says on Thursday, I hope someone can ask these kind of questions.
Sent from my iPad > On 19 okt. 2015, at 18:18, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > The lifetime of pions is a factor of 100 times shorter than the muon, which > is itself short. > > How pions can be detected at all, with so short a lifetime is a question > worth asking. > > There is a good possibility that they are inferred – from finding muons, > which can be detected. Hopefully, Ólafsson will address this issue of > detection on Thursday. > > > From: Stephen Cooke > > … Is It possible that the nuclei are sufficiently close that those pions or > virtual ones get generated in association with one nucleus and absorbed by > another either directly or by tunneling at lower energy? > >
