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Can Galileons solve the muon problem?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-30 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The leptonic bound states positronium and muonium are used to constrain galileon contributions to the Lamb shift of muonic hydrogen. Through the application of a variety of bounds on lepton compositeness, it is shown that either the assumption of equating the charge radius of a particle with its galileon scale radius is incompatible with experiments or the scale of galileons must be M>1.33M>1.33 GeV, too large to solve the muon problem. The possibility of stronger constraints in the future from true muonium are discussed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1505.00057,
  title  = {Can Galileons solve the muon problem?},
  author = {Henry Lamm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00057},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, Changed to match journal version

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