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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38438
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2016
xi, 115 pages : illustrations (some color)
Doctoral Dissertation
Academic theses
Text
eng
Lamm, Henry
Lebed, Richard F
Belitsky, Andrei
Alarcon, Ricardo
Easson, Damien
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-86)
Field of study: Physics
The muon problem of flavor physics presents a rich opportunity to study beyond standard model physics. The as yet undiscovered bound state (μ+μ-), called true muonium, presents a unique opportunity to investigate the muon problem. The near-future experimental searches for true muonium will produce it relativistically, preventing the easy application of non-relativistic quantum mechanics. In this thesis, quantum field theory methods based on light-front quantization are used to solve an effective Hamiltonian for true muonium in the Fock space of |μ+μ-> , |μ+μ-γ> , |e+e->, |e+e-γ>, |τ+τ-> , and |τ+τ-γ> . To facilitate these calculations a new parallel code, True Muonium Solver With Front-Form Techniques (TMSWIFT), has been developed. Using this code, numerical results for the wave functions, energy levels, and decay constants of true muonium have been obtained for a range of coupling constants α. Work is also presented for deriving the effective interaction arising from the |γγ sector’s inclusion into the model.
Physics
Particle Physics
Light-Front
Muon
True Muonium
Bound states (Quantum mechanics)
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Muonium
True muonium on the light front