Nuclear Scattering Lengths from the Spectroscopy of Muonic Molecules
- 25 November 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 151 (4) , 1337-1340
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.151.1337
Abstract
The shift in energy levels of molecules produced by the nuclear interaction energy has been calculated. It is proportional to the probability of coincidence of the two nuclei and to their zero-energy scattering length. In it is 0.01 eV; in it is 0.005 eV. The effect may be detected by measuring the hyperfine splitting of , of which it is a considerable fraction, and a null test for its presence is given. Its magnitude yields the difference of the nuclear scattering lengths in different spin states. As a by-product of our analysis of the hyperfine splitting, we discuss the possibility it presents, as compared to , of studying the spin-spin interaction, which is a sensitive test of quantum electrodynamics.
Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- Muonic Molecules and Nucleon-Deuteron CapturePhysical Review B, 1966
- Polarization contribution to the hydrogen hyperfine structure and phenomenology of the electron-proton interactionIl Nuovo Cimento (1869-1876), 1965
- New Value for the Fine-Structure Constantfrom Muonium Hyperfine Structure IntervalPhysical Review Letters, 1964
- Nuclear reactions in cold hydrogen I. mesonic catalysisUspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk, 1960
- Catalysis of Nuclear Reactions byMesonsPhysical Review B, 1957
- Elastic Scattering of Protons and Neutrons by DeuteronsPhysical Review B, 1953
- The Interpretation of Low Energy Proton-Proton ScatteringReviews of Modern Physics, 1950