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Two-photon exchange on neutron and the hyperfine splitting

Nuclear Theory 2019-04-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment Atomic Physics

Abstract

We calculate the contribution from the two-photon exchange on the neutron to the hyperfine splitting of S energy levels. We update the value of the neutron Zemach radius, estimate total recoil and polarizability corrections. The resulting two-photon exchange in electronic atoms exceeds by an order of magnitude the leading Zemach term and has different sign both in electronic and muonic hydrogen.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03884,
  title  = {Two-photon exchange on neutron and the hyperfine splitting},
  author = {Oleksandr Tomalak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03884},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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