Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2011-11-02
Physics Letters B 704 (2011) 600-603
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.09.057
A method that deals with the nucleons and the muon unitedly is employed to investigate the muonic lead, with which the correlation between the muon and nucleus can be studied distinctly. A "kink" appears in the muonic isotope shift at a neutron magic number where the nuclear shell structure plays a key role. This behavior may have very important implications for the experimentally probing the shell structure of the nuclei far away from the $\beta$-stable line. We investigate the variations of the nuclear structure due to the interaction with the muon in the muonic atom and find that the nuclear structure remains basically unaltered. Therefore, the muon is a clean and reliable probe for studying the nuclear structure. In addition, a correction that the muon-induced slight change in the proton density distribution in turn shifts the muonic levels is investigated. This correction to muonic level is as important as the Lamb shift and high order vacuum polarization correction, but is larger than anomalous magnetic moment and electron shielding correction.
Dong J. M.
Gu Jian-Zhong
Scheid Werner
Wang Yi Zhao
Zhang Feng-Hua
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