Speaker
Aldo Antognini
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
Description
We have measured several 2S-2P transitions in muonic hydrogen ($\mu$p), muonic deuterium ($\mu$d) and muonic helium ions ($\mu^3$He, $\mu^4$He). From muonic hydrogen we extracted a proton charge radius 20 times more precise than obtained from electron-proton scattering and hydrogen high-precision laser spectroscopy but at a variance of $7\sigma$ from these values. This discrepancy is nowadays referred to as the ``proton radius puzzle''.
The status of the proton charge radius puzzle including the new insights obtained from spectroscopy of other muonic atoms will be discussed.
Primary author
Aldo Antognini
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
