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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Two-photon exchange on the neutron and the hyperfine splitting

Oleksandr TomalakOleksandr TomalakOleksandr Tomalak

subject

PhysicsNuclear TheoryAtomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)FOS: Physical sciencesRadiusPhysics - Atomic PhysicsNuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)RecoilPolarizabilityNeutronPhysics::Atomic PhysicsNuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)Atomic physicsNuclear ExperimentHyperfine structureOrder of magnitudeExotic atomSign (mathematics)

description

We calculate the contribution from the two-photon exchange on the neutron to the hyperfine splitting of S energy levels. We update the value of the neutron Zemach radius, estimate total recoil and polarizability corrections. The resulting two-photon exchange in electronic atoms exceeds by an order of magnitude the leading Zemach term and has different sign both in electronic and muonic hydrogen.

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.056018