10–14 Jun 2024
ETH Zurich- Hönggerberg Campus
Europe/Zurich timezone

The ground state hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen (Hyper-mu) experiment at PSI.

14 Jun 2024, 12:05
20m
ETH Zurich- Hönggerberg Campus

ETH Zurich- Hönggerberg Campus

Talk Session 9

Speaker

Mr Ahmed Ouf (johannes gutenberg universität mainz)

Description

The Hyper-mu experiment at PSI aims at the first measurement of the ground state hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen ($\mu p$) with an accuracy of 1 ppm. Such a measurement would lead to the extraction of the two photon exchange, encoding the proton Zemach radius and polarizability, with an unprecedented relative uncertainty.
Toward the measurement of the ground state hyperfine splitting in $\mu p$, we develop a unique pulsed laser system with the aim of delivering 5mJ pulses at a wavelength of 6.8 $\mu m$ randomly triggered on the detection of muons. We report on the latest laser development within the experiment, the several developments of the detection system that was carried out and the optimization of the experimental parameters to obtain a successful resonance signal.

Author

Mr Ahmed Ouf (johannes gutenberg universität mainz)

Co-author

CREMA collaboration (paul scherrer institute)

Presentation materials