Volume 476 - 42nd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2024) - Operation, Performance and Upgrade (incl. HL-LHC) of Present Detectors
First operations of the FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL
R. Rossini*  on behalf of the FAMU Collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: December 17, 2024
Published on: April 29, 2025
Abstract
The FAMU experiment (Fisica degli Atomi MUonici), led by INFN at the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory (UK), is designed to measure the hyperfine splitting of the muonic hydrogen ground
state. This measurement, aiming to give an accurate insight of the proton’s electric and magnetic
structure, plays a key role in verifying the most accurate QED calculations and tests the interaction
between proton and muon. A 55 MeV/c pulsed negative muon beam is produced by the ISIS
synchrotron at the RIKEN-RAL muon facility. The beam is directed against a gaseous hydrogen-
oxygen target, where a pulsed Mid-InfraRed laser with a tunable wavelength around 6.8 μm is
injected. The aim is to determine the laser wavelength stimulating the resonant spin-flip in μH
atoms, which is related to on the proton Zemach radius. The experiment data talking started in
2023, and a new set of data is being taken in 2024 and 2025. In this presentation, the status of the
FAMU experiment, its performance and its future development are presented.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.0927
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