A reassessment of nuclear effects in muonic deuterium using pionless effective field theory at N3LO

Abstract

We provide a systematic assessment of the order-${\alpha }^5$ nuclear contributions to the Lamb shift of muonic deuterium, including the accompanying radiative corrections due to vacuum polarization, up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) within the pionless effective field theory (EFT). We also evaluate higher-order corrections due to the single-nucleon structure, which are expected to be the most important corrections beyond N3LO. We find a correlation between the deuteron charge and Friar radii, which can be useful to judge the quality of charge form factor parametrisations. We refine the theoretical description of the $2\gamma$-exchange contribution, especially in the elastic contribution and the radiative corrections, ameliorating the original discrepancy between theory and experiment in the size of $2\gamma$-exchange effects. Based on the experimental Lamb shift of muonic deuterium, we obtain the deuteron charge radius, $r_d(\mu \text{D})=2.12763(13{)}_{\text{exp}}(77{)}_{\text{theory}}$~fm, which is consistent with (but less precise than) the value obtained by combining the H-D isotope shift with the muonic hydrogen Lamb shift. The theory uncertainty is evaluated using a Bayesian procedure and is dominated by the truncation of the pionless EFT series.

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