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Orthopositronium lifetime: analytic results in O(alpha) and O(alpha^3 ln(alpha))

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-12-18 v1

Abstract

We present the O(alpha) and O(alpha^3 ln(alpha)) corrections to the total decay width of orthopositronium in closed analytic form, in terms of basic transcendental numbers, which can be evaluated numerically to arbitrary precision.

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@article{arxiv.0806.4927,
  title  = {Orthopositronium lifetime: analytic results in O(alpha) and O(alpha^3 ln(alpha))},
  author = {Bernd A. Kniehl and Anatoly V. Kotikov and Oleg L. Veretin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4927},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure