Review of experimental and theoretical status of the proton radius puzzle

Abstract

The discrepancy between the measured Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen and expectations from electron-proton scattering and regular hydrogen spectroscopy has become known as the proton radius puzzle, whose most "mundane" resolution requires a $>5\sigma$ shift in the value of the fundamental Rydberg constant. I briefly review the status of spectroscopic and scattering measurements, recent theoretical developments, and implications for fundamental physics.

Comments: 22 pages, 14 figures, invited plenary talk presented at XII Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Thessaloniki, 2016