Critical discussion of the vacuum polarization measurements in muonic atoms: Johann Rafelski, Berndt Müller, Gerhard Soff, and Walter Greiner. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 87
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(74)90052-9

✦ Synopsis

Recent disagreement between theoretical and experimental values of transition energies for outer states in muonic atoms is discussed in the range of 150 keV-440 keV. A brief review of the present status of calculation of the theoretical contributions is given. A rigorous theoretical framework for the electron-muon system is considered. A set of self-consistent equations is derived. Several mechanisms for the explanation of the discrepancy are discussed. No explanation within the frame of standard quantum electrodynamics is found.