Evaluation of hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to muonium hyperfine splitting.pdfVIP

Preprint SSU-HEP-98/04 Samara State University 8 9 9 Evaluation of hadronic vacuum polarization 1 g contribution to muonium hyperfine splitting u A R.N. Faustov 9 Scientific Council for Cybernetics, 1 Russian Academy of Sciences 1 117333, Moscow, Vavilov, 40, Russia, v A. Karimkhodzhaev 5 6 Department of Physics, Tashkent State University, 3 700095, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 8 0 A.P. Martynenko 8 Department of Theoretical Physics, Samara State University, 9 / 443011, Samara, Pavlov, 1, Russia h p - Abstract p e The contribution of hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) to the hyperfine split- h : ting of the muonium ground state is evaluated with the account of modern experi- v + − mental data on the cross section of e e → annihilation into hadrons. i X r a 1 In the framework of the quasipotential method the particle interaction operator for 1γ- and 2γ- processes takes the form [1, 2, 3]: V = V1γ + V2γ = V c + ∆V, (1) V1γ = T1γ , V2γ = T2γ − T1γ × Gf × T1γ , where V c is Coulomb potential, T1γ , T2γ are one- and two-photon scattering amplitudes f −1 2 2 off the energy shell, [G ] = (b − p )/2R is the free two-particle Green function (R is relativistic reduced mass) [4]. Then the corresponding correction in the energy spectrum may be written as follows: