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Researchers orbit a muon around an atom, confirm physics is broken (arstechnica.com)
25 points by cronjobber on Aug 31, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Related discussion on the same study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270483


Thanks


For protons, the muon-derived radius is 4% smaller than for the electron-derived radius. But for deuterium, the discrepancy is only 0.8%.

Is there some obvious scaling argument why adding a neutron should reduce the anomalous effect by a factor of 5? Actually, why is it that the deuteron's charge radius is so more than 2x the proton's? It obviously doesn't work like you'd expect something volumetric to work.




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