The two-photon exchange contribution to muonic hydrogen from chiral perturbation theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.07.027zbMATH Open1325.81194arXiv1406.4524OpenAlexW2093114175MaRDI QIDQ894750FDOQ894750

Authors: Clara Peset, Antonio Pineda 

Publication date: 23 November 2015

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the spin-dependent and spin-independent structure functions of the forward virtual-photon Compton tensor of the proton at one loop using heavy baryon effective theory including the Delta particle. We compare with previous results when existing. Using these results we obtain the leading hadronic contributions, associated to the pion and Delta particles, to the Wilson coefficients of the lepton-proton four fermion operators in NRQED. The spin-independent coefficient yields a pure prediction for the two-photon exchange contribution to the muonic hydrogen Lamb shift, $$ $mu$eV. We also compute the charge, $langle{r}^{n}angle$, and Zemach, $langle{r}^{n}angl{e}_{(2)}$, moments for $ngeq3$. Finally, we discuss the spin-dependent case, for which we compute the difference between the four-fermion Wilson coefficients relevant for hydrogen and muonic hydrogen.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4524

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Atomic physics (81V45)

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• Proton Structure and the Hyperfine Shift in Hydrogen

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• Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen. I: Verification and update of theoretical predictions

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