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Ditauonium spectroscopy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-11-03 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We examine the properties of ditauonium, an exotic atom consisting of a pair of opposite-sign τ\tau leptons bound together by the quantum electrodynamics (QED) interaction in a hydrogen-like state. The energy levels, decay modes and associated partial widths, as well as total widths and lifetimes of the ortho- and para-ditauonium states are calculated. Higher-order QED effects -- including Lamb shifts, hyperfine splitting structure, and partial decay widths corrections -- are incorporated up to approximately next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) accuracy. Beyond the dominant diphoton and difermion decays, the rates of rare decay channels -- including Dalitz, radiative, triple-photon, double-Dalitz, four-fermion, and neutrinos final states -- are determined.

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@article{arxiv.2204.07269,
  title  = {Ditauonium spectroscopy},
  author = {David d'Enterria and Redamy Perez-Ramos and Hua-Sheng Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.07269},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

18 pages, 8 figures. Typos corrected

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