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Two-Loop Polarization Contributions to Radiative-Recoil Corrections to Hyperfine Splitting in Muonium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We calculate radiative-recoil corrections of order α2(Zα)(m/M)EF\alpha^2(Z\alpha)(m/M)E_F to hyperfine splitting in muonium generated by the diagrams with electron and muon polarization loops. These corrections are enhanced by the large logarithm of the electron-muon mass ratio. The leading logarithm cubed and logarithm squared contributions were obtained a long time ago. The single-logarithmic and nonlogarithmic contributions calculated here improve the theory of hyperfine splitting, and affect the value of the electron-muon mass ratio extracted from the experimental data on the muonium hyperfine splitting.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0107238,
  title  = {Two-Loop Polarization Contributions to 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/0107238},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 11 figures