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Observation of asymmetric line shapes in precision microwave spectroscopy of the positronium 2S13→2PJ3 ( J=1,2 ) fine-structure intervals

Gurung, L; Babij, TJ; Pérez-Ríos, J; Hogan, SD; Cassidy, DB; (2021) Observation of asymmetric line shapes in precision microwave spectroscopy of the positronium 2S13→2PJ3 ( J=1,2 ) fine-structure intervals. Physical Review A , 103 (4) , Article 042805. 10.1103/physreva.103.042805. Green open access

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Abstract

We report new measurements of the positronium (Ps) 2 3 S 1 → 2 3 P J fine-structure intervals, ν J ( J = 0 , 1 , 2 ). In the experiments, Ps atoms, optically excited to the radiatively metastable 2 3 S 1 level, flew through microwave radiation fields tuned to drive transitions to the short-lived 2 3 P J levels, which were detected via the time spectrum of subsequent ground-state Ps annihilation radiation. Both the ν 1 and ν 2 line shapes were found to be asymmetric, which, in the absence of a complete line-shape model, prevents accurate determination of these fine-structure intervals. Conversely, the ν 0 line shape did not exhibit any significant asymmetry; the observed interval, however, was found to disagree with QED theory by 4.2 standard deviations.

Type: Article
Title: Observation of asymmetric line shapes in precision microwave spectroscopy of the positronium 2S13→2PJ3 ( J=1,2 ) fine-structure intervals
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.103.042805
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.042805
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126237
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