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Deuteron charge radius from the Lamb-shift measurement in muonic deuterium

Marcin Kalinowski
Phys. Rev. A 99, 030501(R) – Published 21 March 2019

Abstract

The deuteron charge radius is calculated from the measurement of the Lamb shift in muonic deuterium, taking into account the electron vacuum polarization correction to the nuclear-structure effects. This correction is unexpectedly large and gives a mean-square charge-radii difference rd2rp2=3.81747(346)fm2, which is now consistent with that obtained from the ordinary H-D isotope shift in the 1S2S transition. This suggests that the long-standing discrepancy in the proton charge radius obtained from electronic and muonic systems is due to an underestimated uncertainty in ordinary hydrogen spectroscopy.

  • Received 28 December 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.030501

©2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

  1. Research Areas
  1. Physical Systems
Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Marcin Kalinowski*

  • Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland

  • *mj.kalinowski@student.uw.edu.pl

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Vol. 99, Iss. 3 — March 2019

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