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Two-loop corrections to Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting in hydrogen via multi-loop methods

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-08-16 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We revisit the contributions of order α2(Zα)5m\alpha^2(Z\alpha)^5m and α2(Zα)EF\alpha^2(Z\alpha)E_F, respectively, to the Lamb shift and to the hyperfine splitting from mixed self-energy-vacuum-polarization diagrams, involving fermionic loop. We use modern multi-loop calculation techniques based on IBP reduction and differential equations. We construct the ϵ\epsilon-regular basis [LeeOnishchenko2019] and explicitly demonstrate that it is compatible with the renormalization. We obtain analytic results in terms of one-fold integral involving elliptic function and dilogarithm. As a by-product, we obtain the analogous contribution for the limiting cases of heavy and light fermionic loop.

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@article{arxiv.2306.13369,
  title  = {Two-loop corrections to Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting in hydrogen via multi-loop methods},
  author = {Petr A. Krachkov and Roman N. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.13369},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures

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