2010

QED is not endangered by the proton's size

De Rújula, A.

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Pohl et al.

  • have reported a very precise measurement of the Lamb-shift in muonic Hydrogen, from which they infer the radius characterizing the proton's charge distribution.
  • The result is 5 standard deviations away from the one of the CODATA compilation of physical constants.
  • This has been interpreted as possibly requiring a 4.9 standard-deviation modification of the Rydberg constant, to a new value that would be precise to 3.3 parts in $10^{13}$, as well as putative evidence for physics beyond the standard model.

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