Nuclear polarization effects in muonic atoms

Abstract

We illustrate how nuclear polarization corrections in muonic atoms can be formally connected to inelastic response functions of a nucleus. We first discuss the point-nucleon approximation and then include finite-nucleon-size corrections. As an example, we compare our ab-initio calculation of the third Zemach moment in the muonic Helium-4 ion to previous phenomenological results.

Comments: 5 pages, Presented at the 22nd European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (EFB22) held at Krakow, Poland, 9 - 13 September 2013