24–29 Aug 2014
Hamburg University
Europe/Berlin timezone

The muonic hydrogen Lamb shift and proton radius from effective field theories

28 Aug 2014, 17:10
20m
Hörsaal H (Main Building)

Hörsaal H

Main Building

Talk 2) Quarks and gluons in hadrons, the hadron spectrum Quarks and gluons in hadrons, the hadron spectrum

Speaker

Mr Pineda Antonio (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Description

We obtain a model independent expression for the muonic hydrogen Lamb shift. The hadronic effects are controlled by the chiral theory, which allows for their model independent determination. We give their complete expression including the pion and Delta particles. Out of this analysis and the experimental measurement of the muonic hydrogen Lamb shift we determine the electromagnetic proton radius: $r_p=0.8432(16)$ fm. This number is at 6.4$\sigma$ variance with respect to the CODATA value. The parametric control of the uncertainties allows us to obtain a model independent determination of the error, which is dominated by hadronic effects.

Primary author

Mr Pineda Antonio (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

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