Positronium energy levels at order mα7: Vacuum polarization corrections in the two-photon-annihilation channel

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 747, Issue , 2015, Pages 551-555

  Adkins, Gregory S ^a   Parsons, Christian ^a   Salinger, M D ^a   Wang, Ruihan ^a  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperfine splitting (hfs); Positronium; Quantum electrodynamics (QED)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932601694     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.050     Document Type: Article

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