Hadronic deuteron polarizability contribution to the Lamb shift in muonic deuterium

TL;DR

This paper calculates the hadronic deuteron polarizability correction to the Lamb shift in muonic deuterium using a unitary isobar model and recent experimental data, enhancing understanding of nuclear effects in muonic atoms.

Contribution

It provides a new calculation of the hadronic deuteron polarizability contribution to the Lamb shift based on updated models and experimental data.

Findings

Quantifies the polarizability correction to the Lamb shift.

Uses modern structure function parameterizations.

Improves accuracy of theoretical predictions for muonic deuterium.

Abstract

Hadronic deuteron polarizability correction to the Lamb shift of muonic deuterium is calculated on the basis of unitary isobar model and modern experimental data on the structure functions of deep inelastic lepton-deuteron scattering and their parameterizations in the resonance and nonresonance regions.