Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
1998-05-14
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
4 pages, submitted to proceedings of JHF_98 workshop, Tsukubs (1998)
Scientific paper
A positive muon ($\mu^+$) and an electron ($e^-$) form the the hydrogen-like muonium atom ($M$=$\mu^+ e^-$). Since it consists of two leptonic particles which are according to present knowledge point-like, accurate calculations of its level energies can be performed in the framework of standard theory. In particular, the theoretical description of this system is possible almost exclusively by Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) which has been verified in various very high precision experiments. Due to the close confinement of the bound state the muonium atom renders in addition the possibility for sensitive searches for electron--muon interactions not included in the standard model. Such exotic processes could affect the energy of the quantum states at a level of the same order of magnitude as the precision achievable in modern spectroscopic experiments.Oscillations between muonium and antimuonium ($\bar{M}$=$\mu^- e^+$) would violate separate additive lepton number conservation which is a purely empirical law.
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