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The Lamb shift in muonic hydrogenThis paper was presented at the International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems, held at École de Physique, les Houches, France, 30 May – 4 June, 2010.

2011; NRC Research Press; Volume: 89; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1139/p10-109

1208-6045

Randolf Pohl, Aldo Antognini, F. Nez, F. D. Amaro, F. Biraben, J. M. R. Cardoso, D. S. Covita, A. Dax, S. Dhawan, L. M. P. Fernandes, Adolf Giesen, Thomas Graf, T. W. Hänsch, P. Indelicato, L. Julién, Cheng-Yang Kao, Paul Knowles, Éric-Olivier Le Bigot, Yiwei Liu, J. A. M. Lopes, L. Ludhová, C.M.B. Monteiro, F. Mulhauser, Tobias Nebel, Paul Rabinowitz, J.M.F. dos Santos, L. A. Schaller, Karsten Schuhmann, Catherine Schwob, D. Taqqu, J.F.C.A. Veloso, F. Kottmann,

Advanced Frequency and Time Standards

The long quest for a measurement of the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen is over. Last year we measured the 2S 1/2 F=1 –2P 3/2 F=2 energy splitting (Pohl et al., Nature, 466, 213 (2010)) in μp with an experimental accuracy of 15 ppm, twice better than our proposed goal. Using current QED calculations of the fine, hyperfine, QED, and finite size contributions, we obtain a root-mean-square proton charge radius of r p = 0.841 84 (67) fm. This value is 10 times more precise, but 5 standard deviations smaller, than the 2006 CODATA value of r p . The origin of this discrepancy is not known. Our measurement, together with precise measurements of the 1S–2S transition in regular hydrogen and deuterium, gives improved values of the Rydberg constant, R ∞ = 10 973 731.568 160 (16) m –1 and the rms charge radius of the deuteron r d = 2.128 09 (31) fm.