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True Muonium $(\mu^+ \mu^-)$ on the Light Front

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-13 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Applying Discretized Light Cone Quantization, we perform the first calculation of the spectrum of true muonium, the μ+μ\mu^+ \mu^- atom, as modified by the inclusion of an eeˉ>|e\bar e > Fock component. The shift in the mass eigenvalue is found to be largest for triplet states. If mem_e is taken to be a substantial fraction of mμm_\mu, the integrated probability of the electronic component of the 13/!S11 \, {}^3 /! S_1 state is found to be as large as O(102)O(10^{-2}). Initial studies of the Lamb shift for the atom are performed. Directions for making the simulations fully realistic are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1311.3245,
  title  = {True Muonium $(\mu^+ \mu^-)$ on the Light Front},
  author = {Henry Lamm and Richard F. Lebed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3245},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, ReVTeX, pdflatex, 11 eps figures (also included as pdf figures), 4 tables. Version accepted by J. Phys. G