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Searching New Physics in Muonium Atoms Klaus P. Jungmann1 Physikalisches Institut, Universit¨at Heidelberg, Philosophen- 8 weg 12, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany 9 9 1 Abstract. Quantum Electrodynamics describes electromag- y netic interactions of free muons and of muon and electron in the a muonium atom to very high accuracy. Contributions of other M and yet unknown interactions can be investigated in precision 4 experiments, e.g. by searching for muonium-antimuonium con- 1 version and by measuring the muon magnetic anomaly. 1 v 5 1 0 1. Muonium-antimuonium conversion 5 0 The hydrogenlike muonium atom (M = µ+e−) consists of two leptons 8 9 from different generations. The close confinement of the bound state of- / fers excellent opportunities to explore precisely fundamental electron-muon x e interaction. The dominant part of the binding in this atom is electromag- - netic which can be calculated to very high accuracy in the framework of p quantum electromagnetics (QED). Indeed, precision experiments of elec- e h tromagnetic transitions in this system have been employed both for testing : the validity of bound state QED calculations and for determining most ac- v curate values of fundamental constants [1]. The present 36 ppb precision i X of measurements of the hyperfine structure of muonium is already a factor r of two below the 50 ppb contribution of strong interactions arising from a hadronic vacuum polarization New experimental results on this transition from rec