Production of the Smallest QED Atom: True Muonium (mu^+ mu^-)

Abstract

The "true muonium" (mu^+ mu-) and "true tauonium" (tau^+ tau^-) bound states are not only the heaviest, but also the most compact pure QED systems. The rapid weak decay of the tau makes the observation of true tauonium difficult. However, as we show, the production and study of true muonium is possible at modern electron-positron colliders.

arXiv comment4 pages, ReVTeX, 4 eps figures; minor wording changes and reordering of a reference. Version accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett

References in corpus (5)

• The bound mu+ mu- system
• Production of bound {${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$}-systems in relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Decay Rate and Hyperfine Structure of the bound mu+ mu- system
• Production of bound triplet ${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ system in collisions of electrons with atoms
• Bepcii and Besiii

Cited by in corpus (80)

• Feebly-Interacting Particles:FIPs 2020 Workshop Report
• A New Picture for the Formation and Decay of the Exotic $XYZ$ Mesons
• Muonic hydrogen and MeV forces
• Dark-matter bound states from Feynman diagrams
• Spectroscopy as a test of Coulomb's law - A probe of the hidden sector
• Loopy Constraints on Leptophilic Dark Matter and Internal Bremsstrahlung
• Precision measurement of the $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to {\Lambda }_c^{+}{\bar{\Lambda }}_c^{-}$ cross section near threshold
• Co-SIMP Miracle
• Generalized parton distributions and transverse densities in a light-front quark-diquark model for the nucleons
• Homeopathic Dark Matter, or how diluted heavy substances produce high energy cosmic rays
• Laboratory tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetry with muons
• Novel proposal for a low emittace muon beam using positron beam on target
• Asymmetric dark matter: residual annihilations and self-interactions
• Gauged L_mu - L_tau and different Muon Neutrino and Anti-Neutrino Oscillations: MINOS and beyond
• On weak interactions as short-distance manifestations of gravity
• Measurement of cross-section for $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to {\Xi }^{-}{\bar{\Xi }}^{+}$ near threshold at BESIII
• The Production and Discovery of True Muonium in Fixed-Target Experiments
• Probing the internal structure of baryons
• Three-photon-annihilation contributions to positronium energies at order $m{\alpha }^7$
• Discovering True Muonium at LHCb
• Semi-Analytic Approach to Higher-Order Corrections in Simple Muonic Bound Systems: Vacuum Polarization, Self-Energy and Radiative-Recoil
• Complementarity for Dark Sector Bound States
• True muonium production in ultraperipheral $PbPb$ collisions
• Low-energy electron-positron collider to search and study (μ^+μ^-) bound state
• Electroweak Corrections to the True Muonium Hyperfine Splitting
• Positronium energy levels at order $m{\alpha }^7$: Product contributions in the two-photon-annihilation channel
• Three-Loop Radiative-Recoil Corrections to Hyperfine Splitting in Muonium: Diagrams with Polarization Loops
• Ditauonium spectroscopy
• Can Galileons solve the muon problem?
• On the possibility of observable signatures of leptonium from astrophysical sources
• Predicting and Discovering True Muonium
• Photoproduction of relativistic QED bound states in hadronic collisions
• Hadronic Vacuum Polarization in True Muonium
• Notes about collision monochromatization in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders
• True muonium resonant production at $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders with standard crossing angle
• Discovering True Muonium in $K_L\to ({\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-})\gamma$
• Hadron Spectroscopy and Dynamics from Light-Front Holography and Superconformal Algebra
• Hyperfine Splitting in True Muonium to $\mathcal{O}(m_{\mu }{\alpha }^6)$: Two Photon Annihilation Contribution from Other Flavors
• Diffractive Dissociation of Alpha Particles as a Test of Isophobic Short-Range Correlations inside Nuclei
• Scouring meson decays for true muonium
• Renormalized Light Front Hamiltonian in the Pauli-Villars Regularization
• Relativistic wave equations of n-body systems of fermions and antifermions of various masses in quantum electrodynamics
• Antihydrogen $(\bar{\mathrm{H}})$ and muonic antihydrogen $({\bar{\mathrm{H}}}_{\mu })$ formation in low energy three-charge-particle collisions
• Hypothesis of quark binding by condensation of gluons in hadrons
• Fifth Force and Hyperfine Splitting in Bound Systems
• QCD Constituent Counting Rules for Neutral Vector Mesons
• Exclusive photon-fusion production of even-spin resonances and exotic QED atoms in high-energy hadron collisions
• The MC-QTAIM: A framework for extending the atoms in molecules analysis beyond purely electronic systems
• High Resolution Nonperturbative Light-Front Simulations of the True Muonium Atom
• Feasibility study of True Muonium discovery with CERN-SPS H4 positron beam
• Constraining the Infrared Behavior of the Soft-Wall AdS/QCD Model
• Muonic hydrogen as a quantum gravimeter
• Measurements of Born Cross Sections for $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to {\Lambda }_c^{+}{\bar{\Lambda }}_c(2595{)}^{-}+c.c.$ and $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to {\Lambda }_c^{+}{\bar{\Lambda }}_c(2625{)}^{-}+c.c.$ at $\sqrt{s}=$4918.0 and 4950.9 MeV
• Production of true para-muonium in linearly polarized photon fusions
• From First Principles of QED to an Application: Hyperfine Structure of P States of Muonic Hydrogen
• Light-Front Holography and the Light-Front Schrodinger Equation
• Applying Bayesian Inference to Galileon Solutions of the Muon Problem
• Novel method for identifying the heaviest QED atom
• Rare few-body decays of the Standard Model Higgs boson
• Decay of the dimuonium into a photon and a neutral pion
• Muon detection in electron-positron annihilation for muon collider studies
• Alternative implementation of atomic form factors
• Atoms in Flight and the Remarkable Connections between Atomic and Hadronic Physics
• MuMuPy: A Dimuonium-Matter Interaction Calculator
• Bound Deuteron-Antideuteron System (Deuteronium): Leading Radiative and Internal-Structure Corrections to Bound-State Energies
• Nonperturbative True Muonium on the Light Front with TMSWIFT
• Dark sector searches with high-intensity positron beams in the CERN North Area
• The Common Elements of Atomic and Hadronic Physics
• NLO Corrections to Dimuonium Production in Photon-Photon Collision
• Universality of Planck's constant and a constraint from the absence of h_bar-induced neutrino mixing
• Supersymmetric Meson-Baryon Properties of QCD from Light-Front Holography and Superconformal Algebra
• Automated event generation for S-wave quarkonium and leptonium production in NRQCD and NRQED
• Relativistic and Recoil Corrections to Light-Fermion Vacuum Polarization for Bound Systems of Spin-0, Spin-1/2, and Spin-1 Particles
• Transition of dimuonium through foil
• MUMUG: a fast Monte Carlo generator for radiative muon pair production (a pedagogical tutorial)
• Trigonometric identities inspired by atomic form factor
• Novel QCD Phenomena at JLab
• Dark Matter Energy Deposition and Production from the Table-Top to the Cosmos
• Spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to \Lambda \bar{\Lambda }$ at BESIII
• Production of leptonium in heavy quarkonium decays