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Internal structure and positron annihilation in the four-body MuPs system

Quantum Physics 2015-06-23 v3 Atomic Physics

Abstract

A large number of bound state properties of the four-body muonium-positronium system MuPs (or μ+e2e+\mu^{+} e^{-}_2 e^{+}) are determined to high accuracy. Based on these expectation values we predict that the weakly-bound four-body MuPs system has the `two-body' cluster structure Mu + Ps. The two neutral clusters Mu (μ+e\mu^{+} e^{-}) and Ps (e+ee^{+} e^{-}) interact with each other by the attractive van der Waals forces. By using our expectation values of the electron-positron delta-functions we evaluated the half-life τa\tau_a of the MuPs system against annihilation of the electron-positron pair: τa=1Γ4.0715091010\tau_a = \frac{1}{\Gamma} \approx 4.071509 \cdot 10^{-10} secsec. The hyperfine structure splitting of the ground state in the MuPs system evaluated with our expectation values is Δ\Delta \approx 23.064(5) MHzMHz.

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@article{arxiv.1411.1131,
  title  = {Internal structure and positron annihilation in the four-body MuPs system},
  author = {Alexei M. Frolov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.1131},
  year   = {2015}
}