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Unparticle contribution to the hydrogen atom ground state energy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-10-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Atomic Physics

Abstract

In the present work we study the effect of unparticle modified static potentials on the energy levels of the hydrogen atom. By using Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation theory, we obtain the energy shift of the ground state and we compare it with experimental data. Bounds on the unparticle energy scale ΛU\Lambda_\mathcal{U} as a function of the scaling dimension dUd_\mathcal{U} and the coupling constant λ\lambda are derived. We show that there exists a parameter region where bounds on ΛU\Lambda_\mathcal{U} are stringent, signalling that unparticles could be tested in atomic physics experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03319,
  title  = {Unparticle contribution to the hydrogen atom ground state energy},
  author = {Michael F. Wondrak and Piero Nicolini and Marcus Bleicher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03319},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures