Breit type equation for mesonic atoms
Nuclear Theory
2010-11-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
The finite size effects and relativistic corrections in pionic and kaonic hydrogen are evaluated by generalizing the Breit equation for a spin-0 - spin-1/2 amplitude with the inclusion of the hadron electromagnetic form factors. The agreement of the relativistic corrections to the energies of the mesonic atoms with other methods used to evaluate them is not exact, but reasonably good. The precision values of the energy shifts due to the strong interaction, extracted from data, are however subject to the hadronic form factor uncertainties.
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@article{arxiv.0708.0775,
title = {Breit type equation for mesonic atoms},
author = {N. G. Kelkar and M. Nowakowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0775},
year = {2010}
}
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