Contribution of hadronic light-by-light scattering to the hyperfine structure of muonium

Abstract

The contribution of hadronic scattering of light-by-light to the hyperfine structure of muonium is calculated using experimental data on the transition form factors of two photons into a hadron. The amplitudes of interaction between a muon and an electron with horizontal and vertical exchange are constructed. The contributions due to the exchange of pseudoscalar, axial vector, scalar and tensor mesons are taken into account.

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