Two ­photon exchange corrections to the Lamb shift in muonic Helium-­4

ORAL

Abstract

We calculate the two-photon exchange corrections to the Lamb shift in muonic Helium-4 atom within a dispersion relation framework.  These corrections are crucial to obtaining the Helium-4 radius from Lamb shift data, with an accuracy well beyond what has been obtained from electron scattering data.  Part of the effort entailed making analytic fits to the electron-He4 quasielastic scattering data set, for purposes of doing the dispersion integrals.  The results will be compared to results obtained from the very different calculations using a potential model and an effective field theory calculation.

*CEC thanks the National Science Foundation (USA) for support under grants PHY-1516509 and PHY-1812326, and the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, for hospitality while this work was underway.

Presenters

  • Carl E. Carlson

    • William & Mary Coll

Authors

  • Carl E. Carlson

    • William & Mary Coll