Production of the Smallest QED Atom: True Muonium (mu+ mu-)
Apr, 20094 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 102 (2009) 213401
e-Print:
- 0904.2225 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- SLAC-PUB-13575
Citations per year
Abstract: (arXiv)
The 'true muonium' (mu^+ mu-) and 'true tauonium' (tau^+ tau^-) bound states are not only the heaviest, but also the most compact pure QED systems. The rapid weak decay of the tau makes the observation of true tauonium difficult. However, as we show, the production and study of true muonium is possible at modern electron-positron colliders.- 36.10.Ee
- 12.20.Ds
- 31.30.jr
- 13.66.De
- muonium: electroproduction
- tau: bound state
- tau: lifetime
- quantum electrodynamics
- electron positron: annihilation
- muon+ muon-: bound state
References(31)
Figures(4)
- •
- Phys.Rev. 72 (1947) 506-509
- ,
- ,
- ,
- •
- Nature 159 (1947) 694-697,
- Reprinted in *Bristol 1987, Proceedings, 40 years of particle physics* 203-207, and in *Bellandi, J. (ed.) et al.: Topics on cosmic rays, vol. 2*, 42-45
- DOI:
- •
- Nature 160 (1947) 453-456,
- Reprinted in *Bristol 1987, Proceedings, 40 years of particle physics* 207-210, and in *Bellandi, J. (ed.) et al.: Topics on cosmic rays, vol. 2*, 99-102
- DOI:
- •
- Nature 160 (1947) 486-492,
- Reprinted in *Bristol 1987, Proceedings, 40 years of particle physics* 211-217, and in *Bellandi, J. (ed.) et al.: Topics on cosmic rays, vol. 2*, 103-109
- DOI:
- Arch.Sci.Phys.Nat. 28 233
- •
- Phys.Rev. 82 (1951) 455-456
- •
- Phys.Rev. 105 (1957) 5, 1681-1681
- •
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 5 (1960) 63-65
- Sov.J.Nucl.Phys. 10 469
- Bull.Am.Phys.Soc. 16 65
- •
- Phys.Rev.D 36 (1987) 863-877,
- Phys. Rev. D36 ( 1987) 863-877
- ,
- ,
- ,
- •
- Phys.Lett.B 424 (1998) 397-404
- e-Print:•
- ,
- ,
- ,
- ,
- •
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 37 (1976) 249-252
- Nature 449 195
- ,
- ,
- •
- Phys.Rev.A 62 (2000) 032501
- e-Print:•
- ,
- ,
- ,
- ,
- •
- Phys.Rev.C 58 (1998) 3565-3573
- e-Print:•
- Sov.J.Nucl.Phys. 15 582
- Sov.J.Nucl.Phys. 48 (1988) 167-171,
- Yad.Fiz. 48 (1988) 265-271
- •
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 35 (1975) 1605
- Phys.Rev.A 5 1570
- ,
- ,
- ,
- •
- Phys.Lett.B 424 (1998) 397-404
- e-Print:•
- ,
- ,
- ,
- •
- Phys.Rev.A 56 (1997) 4483
- e-Print:•
- ,
- ,
- ,
- •
- J.Exp.Theor.Phys. 86 (1998) 226-236,
- Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz. 113 (1998) 409-431
- DOI: