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most citedTowards Precision Muonic X-Ray Measurements of Charge Radii of Light Nuclei

22 citations · 108 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

hep-ph2026

Searching for new physics with contact-free transitions in muonic atoms

Noam Burger, Ben Ohayon

We present a feasibility study demonstrating how recent advances in quantum-sensing technologies can facilitate stringent comparisons between theoretical predictions and experiment…

nucl-ex2026

Nuclear Charge Radius of Be from Muonic Atom Spectroscopy Using a Microcalorimeter

Ofir Eizenberg, Shikha Rathi, Andreas Abeln +34

The transition energy in muonic Be was measured using a metallic magnetic calorimeter, resulting in eV. The result is 30 times more pre…

nucl-th2026

Taming nuclear size and shape effects in superallowed beta-decay

Bingcheng He, Mikhail Gorchtein, Matthias Heinz +3

We present the first combined analysis of the statistical rate function f in superallowed beta decays with ab initio calculations and data. We focus on C10 to 10B, 14O to 14N and 2…

nucl-ex2026

Charge radii of Cl isotopes from x-ray spectroscopy of muonic atoms

K. A. Beyer, T. E. Cocolios, C. Costache +25

Nuclear charge radii are vital for nuclear and atomic physics, the determination of fundamental constants, and searches for new physics. Muonic atoms, where a single negative muon…

physics.atom-ph2026

Nuclear Charge Radii of Sr Isotopes: Reevaluation based on Transition Frequency Measurements in the manifold in Sr

J. Palmes, K. König, B. K. Sahoo +10

High-precision quasi-simultaneous collinear and anticollinear laser spectroscopy was performed on the (D1), $5s\,^2S_{1/2}\rightarrow 5p\,^…

nucl-ex2026

Towards better nuclear charge radii

István Angeli, Dimiter L. Balabanski, Paraskevi Dimitriou +16

Nuclear charge radii constitute a physical observable of growing significance across multiple subdisciplines of physics and related fields. Their determination relies on a combinat…

physics.atom-ph2026

Binding Energy of Muonic Beryllium: Perturbative versus All--Order Calculations

Shikha Rathi, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Paul Indelicato +1

We compute the ground-state binding energy of muonic Be in two ways: first, the fully perturbative treatment of the nuclear-size effect often employed in light systems, and sec…

physics.atom-ph2026

Theory Framework for Medium-Mass Muonic Atoms

S. Rathi, I. A. Valuev, Z. Sun +4

We present a state-of-the-art theoretical approach for computing bound-state energies in muonic atoms, incorporating improved quantum electrodynamics effects and nuclear polarizati…

physics.atom-ph2026★ 1 cited

Atomic parity violation in highly charged Ca and Pb ions

A. V. Viatkina, Ch. G. Mertens, B. Ohayon +2

We calculate parity-violation-induced E1 amplitudes for the and transitions in H- and Li-like ions of Ca, Ca, and $^{2…

physics.atom-ph2025

Reference Quadrupole Moments of Transition Elements from Lamb Shifts in Muonic Atoms

S. Rathi, K. von Schoeler, P. Indelicato +1

We present a novel method for accurately measuring the absolute electric quadrupole moments of light transition elements . Our approach is based on performing…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 2 cited

Model-independent determination of nuclear charge radii from Li-like ions

V. A. Yerokhin, B. Ohayon

We demonstrate that recent advances in QED theory of Li-like ions [V. A. Yerokhin et al., Phys. Rev. A 112, 042801 (2025)] enable determinations of absolute nuclear charge radii fo…

physics.atom-ph2025

Microwave Spectroscopy of the Muonium Fine Structure Interval

Philipp Blumer, Gianluca Janka, Svenja Geissmann +8

We report a microwave spectroscopy measurement of the muonium fine structure transition, yielding a transition frequency of , in ag…

nucl-ex2025

Modern approach to muonic x-ray spectroscopy demonstrated through the measurement of stable Cl radii

K. A. Beyer, T. E. Cocolios, C. Costache +25

Recent advances in muonic x-ray experiments have reinvigorated efforts in measurements of absolute nuclear charge radii. Here, a modern approach is presented, and demonstrated thro…

nucl-th2025★ 8 cited

Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity deficit reduction via finite nuclear size

M Gorchtein, V Katyal, B Ohayon +2

We revisit the extraction of the CKM matrix element from the superallowed transition decay rate of AlMg, focusing on finite nuclear size effe…

hep-ph2025★ 6 cited

Probing new hadronic forces with heavy exotic atoms

Hongkai Liu, Ben Ohayon, Omer Shtaif +1

We explore the potential of precision spectroscopy of heavy exotic atoms where electrons are substituted by negative hadrons to detect new force carriers with hadronic couplings. T…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 9 cited

Towards Precision Spectroscopy of Antiprotonic Atoms for Probing Strong-field QED

Gonçalo Baptista, Shikha Rathi, Michael Roosa +26

PAX (antiProtonic Atom X-ray spectroscopy) is a new experiment with the aim to test strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects by performing high-precision x-ray spectrosco…

hep-ph2024

Muonium fine structure: theory update, tests of Lorentz violation and experimental prospects

Philipp Blumer, Svenja Geissmann, Arnaldo J. Vargas +3

We review the status of the QED calculations for the muonium energy interval and provide the updated theoretical value of . Addi…

physics.atom-ph2024

Testing for isospin symmetry breaking with extensive calculations of isotope shift factors in potassium

Vaibhav Katyal, A. Chakraborty, B. K. Sahoo +4

Precise evaluation of the isotope shift (IS) factors for seven low-lying potassium (K) states is achieved using relativistic coupled-cluster (RCC) theory. The energies of these sta…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 2 cited

Production and study of antideuterium with the GBAR beamline

Philipp Blumer, Ben Ohayon, Paolo Crivelli

The potential of circulating antideuterons () in the AD/ELENA facility at CERN is under active investigation. Approximately 100 per b…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Reexamination of vacuum-polarization corrections to the self-energy in muonic bound systems

B. Ohayon, U. D. Jentschura

In muonic bound systems, the dominant radiative correction is due to vacuum polarization. Yet, for the interpretation of precision experiments, self-energy effects are also importa…

nucl-ex2024★ 13 cited

Critical evaluation of reference charge radii and applications in mirror nuclei

Ben Ohayon

I present a critical review of absolute root-mean-square charge radii of stable nuclei from to , which includes a previously overlooked uncertainty in the combined anal…

physics.atom-ph2024

Recent advancements in atomic many-body methods for high-precision studies of isotope shifts

B. K. Sahoo, S. Blundell, A. V. Oleynichenko +3

The development of atomic many-body methods, capable of incorporating electron correlation effects accurately, is required for isotope shift (IS) studies. In combination with preci…

physics.atom-ph2024

Reconciling mean-squared radius differences in the silver chain through improved measurement and {\it ab initio} calculations

B. Ohayon, J. E. Padilla-Castillo, S. C. Wright +2

Nuclear charge radius differences in the silver isotopic chain have been reported through different combinations of experiment and theory, exhibiting a tension of two combined stan…

physics.ins-det2023★ 8 cited

MMC Array to Study X-ray Transitions in Muonic Atoms

Daniel Unger, Andreas Abeln, Thomas Elias Cocolios +19

The QUARTET collaboration aims to significantly improve the precision of the absolute nuclear charge radii of light nuclei from Li to Ne by using an array of metallic magnetic calo…