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A New Relation between Lamb Shift Energies

Quantum Physics 2010-03-29 v1

Abstract

We derive a new relation between the observed Lamb shift energies of hydrogen and muonium atoms. The relation is based on the non-relativistic description of the Lamb shift, and the proper treatment of the reduced mass of electron and target particles (proton and muon) leads to the new formula which is expressed as ΔE2s1/2(H)ΔE2s1/2(μ)=(1+memμ1+meMp)3\displaystyle{{\Delta E^{(H)}_{2s_{1/2}}\over \Delta E^{(\mu)}_{2s_{1/2}}} =({1+{m_e\over m_\mu}\over 1+{m_e\over M_p}})^3}. This relation achieves an excellent agreement with experiment and presents an important QED test free from the cutoff momentum Λ\Lambda.

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@article{arxiv.1003.5050,
  title  = {A New Relation between Lamb Shift Energies},
  author = {Hiroaki Kubo and Takehisa Fujita and Naohiro Kanda and Hiroshi Kato and Yasunori Munakata and Sachiko Oshima and Kazuhiro Tsuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5050},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages, no figure

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