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Microwave Spectroscopy of the Muonium $2S_{1/2}-2P_{3/2}$ Fine Structure Interval

Atomic Physics 2025-09-30 v3

Abstract

We report a microwave spectroscopy measurement of the muonium 2S1/22P3/22S_{1/2}-2P_{3/2} fine structure transition, yielding a transition frequency of 9871.0±7.0 MHz9871.0 \pm 7.0~\mathrm{MHz}, in agreement with state-of-the-art QED predictions within one standard deviation. In combination with the recent Lamb shift result, the 2P1/22P3/22P_{1/2}-2P_{3/2} splitting is determined, improving the spectroscopic characterization of the n=2n=2 manifold in muonium. These results provide a stringent test of bound-state QED in a purely leptonic system and establish a path toward future searches for Lorentz violation and muon-specific new physics.

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@article{arxiv.2509.04674,
  title  = {Microwave Spectroscopy of the Muonium $2S_{1/2}-2P_{3/2}$ Fine Structure Interval},
  author = {Philipp Blumer and Gianluca Janka and Svenja Geissmann and Iren Ignatov and Marcus Mähring and Zaher Salman and Andreas Suter and Edward Thorpe-Woods and Thomas Prokscha and Ben Ohayon and Paolo Crivelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04674},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 7 figures, v2 corrected typos and added some missing references, v3 added ancillary files