Hyperfine Structure and Zeeman Splitting in Two-Fermion Bound-State Systems

Terekidi, Andrei G.; Darewych, Jurij W.; Horbatsch, Marko

Hyperfine Structure and Zeeman Splitting in Two-Fermion Bound-State Systems

Authors

Terekidi, Andrei G.

Darewych, Jurij W.

Horbatsch, Marko

Description

A relativistic wave equation for bound states of two fermions with arbitrary masses which are exposed to a magnetic field is derived from quantum electrodynamics. The interaction kernels are based upon the generalized invariant M-matrices for inter-fermion and fermion-field interactions. As an application we calculate the energy corrections in a weak homogeneous B field to obtain the Zeeman splitting of the hyperfine structure and g-factors in the lowest order (i.e. to alpha^4). Lande g-factors are presented for several of the first excited states of hydrogen, muonium, and muonic-hydrogen.
18 pages, 1 figure