Fine and hyperfine structure of the muonic 3He ion

Abstract

On the basis of quasipotential approach to the bound state problem in QED we calculate the vacuum polarization, relativistic, recoil, structure corrections of orders $\alpha^5$ and $\alpha^6$ to the fine structure interval $\Delta E^{fs}=E(2P_{3/2})-E(2P_{1/2})$ and to the hyperfine structure of the energy levels $2P_{1/2}$ and $2P_{3/2}$ in muonic $^3_2He$ ion. The resulting values $\Delta E^{fs}= 144803.15 \mu eV$, $\Delta \tilde E^{hfs}(2P_{1/2})=-58712.90 \mu eV$, $\Delta \tilde E^{hfs}(2P_{3/2})=-24290.69 \mu eV$ provide reliable guidelines in performing a comparison with the relevant experimental data.