Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213401 (2009) [4 pages]

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

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Stanley J. Brodsky^*
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309, USA

Richard F. Lebed^†
Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, USA

Received 22 April 2009; published 26 May 2009

The “true muonium” (μ⁺μ^-) and “true tauonium” (τ⁺τ^-) bound states are not only the heaviest, but also the most compact pure QED systems. The rapid weak decay of the τ 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.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.213401

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.213401

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36.10.Ee, 12.20.Ds, 13.66.De, 31.30.jr

^*sjbth@slac.stanford.edu

^†Richard.Lebed@asu.edu

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213401 (2009) [4 pages]

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