An Invitation to Muon and Muonium Chemistry Research

Abstract

One can produce light and heavy isotopes of hydrogen using positive or negative muons, which are called muonium (0.114 amu) and muonic helium (4.11 amu), respectively. These new hydrogen isotopes can open a new avenue of chemistry. In this article, we mainly describe our previous computational studies on muonium-containing molecules using quantum theory and emphasize their unique properties.