Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
Abstract
The decay rate of orthopositronium has recently been measured in a new high precision experiment. The result is 10 standard deviations above the theoretical value. It is shown that a light neutral pseudoscalar R may resolve this discrepancy and still be consistent with the anomalous magnetic moments of the electron and the muon. If the mass mR≤5.7 keV , then the existence of this proposed particle R is consistent with the beam-dump experiments. The lifetime of R is large, τ≥0.14 s.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,Astronomy and Astrophysics,Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Cited by
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