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Pulsed laser spectroscopy in muonium and deuterium

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The 1s–2s energy interval in the muonium (μ+e−) atom has been measured by Doppler free two photon laser spectroscopy. A value of 2455528941.0(9.8) MHz has been obtained in good agreement with quantum electrodynamics (QED). The muon-electron mass ratio can be extracted and is found to be 206.76838(17). The measurement may also be interpreted as a determination of the muon-electron charge ratio as -1- 1.1(2.1)· 10−9. Corresponding measurements in deuterium using the same experimental setup confirmed the validity of the applied analysis procedure.

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  1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 12, D 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    V. Meyer, A. Breitrück, A. Grossmann, D. Hübl, K. Jungmann, J. Merkel, G. zu Putlitz, I. Reinhard, R. Santra, P. Schmidt, K. Träger, L. Willmann & V. Yakhontov

  2. Institute of Laser Physics, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    S.N. Bagayev

  3. Physics Department, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK

    P.E.G. Baird, P. Bakule, S.L. Cornish, I.C. Lane, Yi Wei Liu, D. Lucas, P.G.H. Sandars & W.T. Toner

  4. Physics Department, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK

    M.G. Boshier

  5. Institute of Laser Physics, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    S. Dychkov & Y. Matyugin

  6. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK

    G.H. Eaton, C.A. Scott & M. Towrie

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Meyer, V., Bagayev, S., Baird, P. et al. Pulsed laser spectroscopy in muonium and deuterium. Hyperfine Interactions 127, 197–200 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012691517257

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