Speaker
Cecilia Pizzolotto
Description
The FAMU collaboration aims to measure the hyperfine splitting of the muonic hydrogen in the ground state, a way to get insight into the proton magnetic structure.
In 2023, the experiment has successfully acquired data using the complete setup for the first time. Based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK), the experiment consists in directing a muon beam onto a gas target to form muonic hydrogen. Then, a mid-infrared pulsed laser, specifically developed by the collaboration, is injected in the target. The laser wavelength is tuned in a window around 6.8 μm to search for the hyperfine splitting resonance.
This contribution will focus on the status of the experiment and the performances during the most recent beam time.
Author
Cecilia Pizzolotto
