Analytic Calculation to all Orders inof Nuclear Size Effects in Vacuum Polarization
- 11 March 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 32 (10) , 562-565
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.32.562
Abstract
We have calculated the change in the vacuum polarization for muonic atoms with a high- nucleus arising from the finite extent of its charge distribution. In the calculation, the electron mass is set equal to zero and only the first term in an expansion in (nuclear radius)/(radius of the muonic state) is retained. The calculation is done to all orders in and a simple closed-form result is obtained.
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