First direct measurement of positronium hyperfine splitting with sub-THz light
Yamazaki, T. · Miyazaki, A. · Suehara, T. · Namba, T. · Asai, S. · Kobayashi, T. · Saito, H. · Urushizaki, Y. · Ogawa, I. · Idehara, T. · Sabchevski, S.
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Positronium is an ideal system for the research of the bound state QED. The hyperfine splitting of positronium (Ps-HFS, about 203 GHz) is an important observable but all previous measurements of Ps-HFS had been measured indirectly using Zeeman splitting. There might be the unknown systematic errors on the uniformity of magnetic field. We are trying to measure Ps-HFS directly using sub-THz radiation. We developed an optical system to accumulate high power (about 10 kW) radiation in a Fabry-Pérot resonant cavity and observed the positronium hyperfine transition for the first time.
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