Positronium Hyperfine Splitting

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2010-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/1011.6457v1

Physics

Instrumentation and Detectors

10 pages, 13 figures, a proceeding for ISSP2010 in Erice

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Positronium is an ideal system for the research of QED in the bound state. The hyperfine splitting of positronium (Ps-HFS: about 203 GHz) is a good tool to test QED and also sensitive to new physics beyond the Standard Model. Previous experimental results show 3.9\,$\sigma$ (15 ppm) discrepancy from the QED $\mathrm{O}\left(\alpha ^3 \ln{1/\alpha}\right)$ prediction. We point out probable common systematic errors in all previous experiments. I measure the Ps-HFS in two different ways. (1) A prototype run without RF system is described first. (2) I explain a new direct Ps-HFS measurement without static magnetic field. The present status of the optimization studies and current design of the experiment are described. We are now taking data of a test experiment for the observation of the direct transition.

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