On Low Energy Experiments in Qed for Detecting Effects Specifically due to Vacuum Polarization

Abstract

In 1954, Fitch and Rainwater {1} identified muonic atom formation by detecting the deexcitation X rays emitted after μ−’s were stopped in matter. Soon the same group {2}realized that studying the energy levels of muonic atoms offered a rather unique way to observe, directly and with very high accuracy, a typical QED effect due to the polarization of the vacuum.KeywordsVacuum PolarizationMuonic AtomHelium NucleusMuonic SystemFinite Size CorrectionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.