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Precision electroweak shift of muonium hyperfine splitting

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-10-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Electroweak second order shifts of muonium (μ+e\mu^+e^- bound state) energy levels are calculated for the first time. Calculation starts from on-shell one-loop elastic μ+e\mu^+ e^- scattering amplitudes in the center of mass frame, proceed to renormalization and to derivation of muonium matrix elements by using the momentum space wave functions. This is a reliable method unlike the unjustified four-Fermi approximation in the literature. Corrections of order αGF\alpha G_F (with α1/137\alpha \sim 1/137 the fine structure constant and GFG_F the Fermi constant) and of order αGF/(mZaB)\alpha G_F /(m_Z a_B) (with mZm_Z the Z boson mass and aBa_B the Bohr radius) are derived from three classes of Feynman diagrams, Z self-energy, vertex and box diagrams. The ground state muonium hyperfine splitting is given in terms of the only experimentally unknown parameter, the smallest neutrino mass. It is however found that the neutrino mass dependence is very weak, making its detection difficult.

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@article{arxiv.1810.05429,
  title  = {Precision electroweak shift of muonium hyperfine splitting},
  author = {T. Asaka and M. Tanaka and K. Tsumura and M. Yoshimura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05429},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures

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