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O(alpha^3 ln alpha) corrections to muonium and positronium hyperfine splitting

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We compute O(alpha^3 ln alpha) relative corrections to the ground state hyperfine splitting of a QED two body bound state with different masses of constituents. The general result is then applied to muonium and positronium. In particular, a new value of the muon to electron mass ratio is derived from the muonium ground state hyperfine splitting.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0010131,
  title  = {O(alpha^3 ln alpha) corrections to muonium and positronium hyperfine splitting},
  author = {Kirill Melnikov and Alexander Yelkhovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0010131},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, revtex