Constraints on proton structure from precision atomic physics measurements

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2004-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0408131v3

Phys.Rev.Lett.94:022001,2005; Erratum-ibid.94:169902,2005

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

4 pages, RevTeX 4; corrects errors, to be consistent with published erratum

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.169902

Ground-state hyperfine splittings in hydrogen and muonium are very well measured. Their difference, after correcting for magnetic moment and reduced mass effects, is due solely to proton structure--the large QED contributions for a pointlike nucleus essentially cancel. The rescaled hyperfine difference depends on the Zemach radius, a fundamental measure of the proton, computed as an integral over a product of electric and magnetic proton form factors. The determination of the Zemach radius, (1.043 +/- 0.016) fm, from atomic physics tightly constrains fits to accelerator measurements of proton form factors. Conversely, we can use muonium data to extract an ``experimental'' value for QED corrections to hydrogenic hyperfine data; we find that measurement and theory are consistent.

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