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Meyer and colleagues measured the muonium 1s–2s interval using counterpropagating two-photon laser excitation, photoionization and muon detection. Pulse-by-pulse laser diagnostics, an iodine frequency reference and deuterium control measurements supported the analysis of 99 muonium events. After correcting to the hyperfine centroid, they reported a transition frequency of 2,455,528,941.0±9.8 MHz. Comparisons with bound-state quantum electrodynamics provided conditional determinations of the positive-muon mass and constraints on the muon–electron charge ratio.
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The measured line centre depends on pulse-dependent lineshape modelling, reference calibration and Doppler and hyperfine corrections. Mass-ratio extraction uses QED and equal-magnitude charges; interpreting the same spectrum as a charge-ratio constraint instead uses external mass information. These are distinct conditional interpretations, not independent simultaneous measurements of both unknown ratios. The historical result and its uncertainty do not establish exact charge equality, exclude every new interaction or replace later theoretical updates.
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V. Meyer; S. N. Bagayev; P. E. G. Baird; P. Bakule; M. G. Boshier; A. Breitrück; S. L. Cornish; S. Dychkov; G. H. Eaton; A. Grossmann; D. Hübl; V. W. Hughes; K. Jungmann; I. C. Lane; Yi-Wei Liu; D. Lucas; Y. Matyugin; J. Merkel; G. zu Putlitz; I. Reinhard; P. G. H. Sandars; R. Santra; P. Schmidt; C. A. Scott; W. T. Toner; M. Towrie; K. Träger; L. Willmann; V. Yakhontov
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Precision two-photon measurement of the muonium 1s–2s interval
Meyer and colleagues measured the muonium 1s–2s interval using counterpropagating two-photon laser excitation, photoionization and muon detection. Pulse-by-pulse laser diagnostics, an iodine frequency reference and deuterium control measurements supported the analysis of 99 muonium events. After correcting to the hyperfine centroid, they reported a transition frequency of 2,455,528,941.0±9.8 MHz. Comparisons with bound-state quantum electrodynamics provided conditional determinations of the positive-muon mass and constraints on the muon–electron charge ratio.
Scientific scope
The measured line centre depends on pulse-dependent lineshape modelling, reference calibration and Doppler and hyperfine corrections. Mass-ratio extraction uses QED and equal-magnitude charges; interpreting the same spectrum as a charge-ratio constraint instead uses external mass information. These are distinct conditional interpretations, not independent simultaneous measurements of both unknown ratios. The historical result and its uncertainty do not establish exact charge equality, exclude every new interaction or replace later theoretical updates.
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V. Meyer; S. N. Bagayev; P. E. G. Baird; P. Bakule; M. G. Boshier; A. Breitrück; S. L. Cornish; S. Dychkov; G. H. Eaton; A. Grossmann; D. Hübl; V. W. Hughes; K. Jungmann; I. C. Lane; Yi-Wei Liu; D. Lucas; Y. Matyugin; J. Merkel; G. zu Putlitz; I. Reinhard; P. G. H. Sandars; R. Santra; P. Schmidt; C. A. Scott; W. T. Toner; M. Towrie; K. Träger; L. Willmann; V. Yakhontov
These are the listed authors of the cited contribution sources. Paper authorship does not quantify individual effort. An incomplete list is explicitly marked; same names are not automatically merged.