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DMF in Liquid Neon:

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In liquid neon, free electrons tend to form bubbles, after which their motion is so slow that DMF from such localized electrons is manifest only in an otherwise inexplicable relaxation rate of the diamagnetic precession signal; this is referred to as “slow DMF”. Electrons which remain delocalized long enough to reach the muon in time to contribute to the Mu precession signal constitute “fast DMF”. Both types of electrons are pulled away from the muon by an applied electric field E, incleasing the diamagnetic fraction at the expense of the DMF fraction. Again only the nearby electrons contribute for high E fields, and these reach the muon sooner, giving a higher λS.