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Positronium contribution to the electron g-2

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-09-26 v3

Abstract

The contribution of positronium to the electron gg-2 (aea_e) has been computed in Ref. [1] and found to be of the same order of α\alpha as that of five-loop perturbative QED. We confirm this result and correct a few errors in its first derivation. As recently calculated in Ref. [2], a continuum nonperturbative contribution to aea_e cancels one-half of the positronium one. We show by explicit calculation that the remaining half is already included in the five-loop perturbative result. We also show that it arises from the class I(i) of five-loop diagrams containing only one closed electron loop.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1402.1575,
  title  = {Positronium contribution to the electron g-2},
  author = {M. Fael and M. Passera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1575},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures; v2: section 3 added, conclusions changed; v3: version published in PRD

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