The Perfect Atom: Bound States of Supersymmetric Quantum Electrodynamics

Understand

We study hydrogen-like atoms in N=1 supersymmetric quantum electrodynamics with an electronic and a muonic family.

• These atoms are bound states of an anti-muon and an electron or their superpartners.
• The exchange of a photino converts different bound states into each other.
• We determine the energy eigenstates and calculate the spectrum to fourth order in the fine structure constant.