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Positronium properties

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-04-15 v1

Abstract

This talk gives an elementary introduction to the basic properties of positronium. Recent progress in theoretical studies of the hyperfine splitting and lifetime of the ground state is reviewed. Sensitivity of these precisely measured quantities to some New Physics effects is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9911455,
  title  = {Positronium properties},
  author = {Andrzej Czarnecki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9911455},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Talk given at the 39th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, May 1999; 11 pages, latex