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Three-Loop Radiative-Recoil Corrections to Hyperfine Splitting in Muonium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We calculate three-loop radiative-recoil corrections to hyperfine splitting in muonium generated by the diagrams with the first order electron and muon polarization loop insertions in graphs with two exchanged photons. These corrections are enhanced by the large logarithm of the electron-muon mass ratio. The leading logarithm squared contribution was obtained a long time ago. Here we calculate the single-logarithmic and nonlogarithmic contributions. We previously calculated the three-loop radiative-recoil corrections generated by two-loop polarization insertions in the exchanged photons. The current paper therefore concludes calculation of all three-loop radiative-recoil corrections to hyperfine splitting in muonium generated by diagrams with closed fermion loop insertions in the exchanged photons. The new results obtained here improve the theory of hyperfine splitting, and affect the value of the electron-muon mass ratio extracted from experimental data on the muonium hyperfine splitting.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0302127,
  title  = {Three-Loop Radiative-Recoil Corrections to Hyperfine Splitting in Muonium},
  author = {Michael I. Eides and Howard Grotch and Valery A. Shelyuto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0302127},
  year   = {2009}
}

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27 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables

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