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Axial-vector exchange contribution to the Hyperfine Splitting

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-27 v2

Abstract

We revisit the contribution of axial-vector mesons to the hyperfine splitting of muonic hydrogen. We focus our attention on the doubly-virtual asymptotic behavior of the relevant form factors of axial-vector mesons, together with their coupling to nucleons based on resonance saturation and short-distance constraints. Among others, we find significant differences with respect to previous studies, including an opposite sign and a 50%\sim50\% effect of the doubly-virtual high-energy behavior.

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@article{arxiv.2110.11366,
  title  = {Axial-vector exchange contribution to the Hyperfine Splitting},
  author = {Alejandro Miranda and Pablo Roig and Pablo Sanchez-Puertas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11366},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

15 pages +references, 2 figures, 4 tables. Matches published version

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