True muonium resonant production at $e^+e^-$ colliders with standard crossing angle

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Main Authors: Gargiulo, Ruben, Di Meco, Elisa, Paesani, Daniele, Palmisano, Stefano, Diociaiuti, Eleonora, Sarra, Ivano
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Published: 2023
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author Gargiulo, Ruben
Di Meco, Elisa
Paesani, Daniele
Palmisano, Stefano
Diociaiuti, Eleonora
Sarra, Ivano
author_facet Gargiulo, Ruben
Di Meco, Elisa
Paesani, Daniele
Palmisano, Stefano
Diociaiuti, Eleonora
Sarra, Ivano
contents True muonium ($μ^+μ^-$) is the heaviest and smallest bound state not involving quantum chromodynamics, after true tauonium ($τ^+τ^-$) and mu-tauonium ($μ^\pmτ^\mp$). Unlike atoms containing $τ$ particles, the muon lifetime is long enough to allow observation of true muonium (TM) decays and transitions. One of the proposed methods to observe the spin 1 fundamental state of TM, which has the smallest lifetime among TM spin 1 states, was to build an $e^+e^-$ collider with a large crossing angle ($θ\sim 30^\circ$) in order to provide TM with a large boost and detect its decay vertex in $e^+ e^-$. The following paper will instead show that TM excited states ($n\geq2$) can be observed in relatively large quantities ($\mathcal{O}$(10)/month) at a feasible $e^+e^-$ collider with standard crossing angles, after setting their center-of-mass energy to the TM mass ($\sim2m_μ=211.4$ MeV).
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spellingShingle True muonium resonant production at $e^+e^-$ colliders with standard crossing angle
Gargiulo, Ruben
Di Meco, Elisa
Paesani, Daniele
Palmisano, Stefano
Diociaiuti, Eleonora
Sarra, Ivano
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
True muonium ($μ^+μ^-$) is the heaviest and smallest bound state not involving quantum chromodynamics, after true tauonium ($τ^+τ^-$) and mu-tauonium ($μ^\pmτ^\mp$). Unlike atoms containing $τ$ particles, the muon lifetime is long enough to allow observation of true muonium (TM) decays and transitions. One of the proposed methods to observe the spin 1 fundamental state of TM, which has the smallest lifetime among TM spin 1 states, was to build an $e^+e^-$ collider with a large crossing angle ($θ\sim 30^\circ$) in order to provide TM with a large boost and detect its decay vertex in $e^+ e^-$. The following paper will instead show that TM excited states ($n\geq2$) can be observed in relatively large quantities ($\mathcal{O}$(10)/month) at a feasible $e^+e^-$ collider with standard crossing angles, after setting their center-of-mass energy to the TM mass ($\sim2m_μ=211.4$ MeV).
title True muonium resonant production at $e^+e^-$ colliders with standard crossing angle
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11683