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Magnetic Field Dependence of Muonium-antimuonium Conversion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

We study the magnetic field dependence of muonium--antimuonium conversion induced by neutral (pseudo)scalar bosons. Only the SSSS operator contributes to the conversion of polarized muonium, but it gets quenched by a magnetic field of strength 0.1 Gauss or stronger. Conversion induced by SSSS couplings for unpolarized muonium is independent of magnetic field. Magnetic fields of 0.1 Tesla or stronger starts to suppress conversion induced by PPPP interactions in the lowest Breit-Rabi level, but gets partially compensated by a rise in conversion probability in the other unpolarized level. The effects of (SP)(SP)(S\mp P)(S\mp P) and (SP)(S±P)(S\mp P)(S\pm P) operators behave in the same way as (VA)(VA)(V\mp A)(V\mp A) and (VA)(V±A)(V\mp A)(V\pm A) operators, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9505300,
  title  = {Magnetic Field Dependence of Muonium-antimuonium Conversion},
  author = {Wei-Shu Hou and Gwo-Guang Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9505300},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, ReVtex, 5 figures available upon request