Nuclear structure effects in light muonic atoms

TL;DR

This paper derives nuclear structure corrections to energy levels in light muonic atoms, focusing on nuclear mass dependence, and provides a specific correction value for muonic deuterium to aid charge radius measurements.

Contribution

It presents a new derivation of nuclear structure corrections with emphasis on mass dependence, enabling more accurate charge radius extraction from muonic atom spectroscopy.

Findings

Derived a correction of 1.717(19) meV for the 2P-2S transition in muonic deuterium.

Highlighted the importance of nuclear mass effects in energy level calculations.

Provided data to improve nuclear charge radius determinations from spectroscopic measurements.

Abstract

Nuclear structure corrections to energy levels of light muonic atoms are derived with particular attention to the nuclear mass dependence. The obtained result for the 2P-2S transition of 1.717(19) meV serves for determination of the nuclear charge radius from the spectroscopic measurement in muonic deuterium.