Muonic atom spectroscopy (H03)

Subject Area Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
Term since 2024
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 514321794
 

Project Description

Within this project, we plan the next generation of muonic atom spectroscopy experiments aiming at a further improvement on the precision of the Lamb shift by a factor of five and a first-time measurement of the ground state hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen to a relative precision of 1 ppm, around two orders of magnitude better than the current precision of the theory. Furthermore, it is planned to perform precision X-ray spectroscopy on Z>2 light nuclei starting with lithium using magnetic metallic microcalorimeters (MMCs).
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of SFB 1660:  Hadrons and Nuclei as Discovery Tools
Applicant Institution Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Project Heads Professor Dr. Randolf Pohl; Frederik Wauters, Ph.D.