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 fine structure transition, yielding a transition frequency of , in agreement with state-of-the-art QED predictions within one standard deviation. In combination with the recent Lamb shift result, the splitting is determined, improving the spectroscopic characterization of the 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.
Cite
@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