Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Measurement of the transition frequency from 2S 1/2, F = 0 to 2P 1/2, F = 1 states in Muonium

  • Gianluca Janka,
  • Ben Ohayon,
  • Irene Cortinovis,
  • Zak Burkley,
  • Lucas de Sousa Borges,
  • Emilio Depero,
  • Artem Golovizin,
  • Xiaojie Ni,
  • Zaher Salman,
  • Andreas Suter,
  • Thomas Prokscha,
  • Paolo Crivelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34672-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Muonium is a hydrogen like bound system with a positive muon and an electron. Here the authors measure the Lamb shift and frequency of the transition from 2S1/2, F = 0 state to 2P1/2, F = 1 state in muonium atom and the hyperfine structure of the 2S level.