{"id":4743,"date":"2019-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2019\/01\/01\/discovering-true-muonium-at-lhcb\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:01:15","slug":"discovering-true-muonium-at-lhcb","status":"publish","type":"physics_publications","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/publications\/discovering-true-muonium-at-lhcb\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering True Muonium At LHCb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"authors\">Xabier Cid Vidal, Philip Ilten, Jonathan Plews, Brian Shuve*, and Yotam Soreq<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"doc-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/02\/pub-140.pdf\">Discovering True Muonium At LHCb (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"journal\"><span class=\"journal-title\">Physical Review D<\/span> <strong data-vol=\"100\">100<\/strong> <span id=\"journal-year\">(2019)<\/span> <span id=\"journal-pages\" data-pages=\"53003\">53003<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We study the potential of the LHCb experiment to discover, for the first time, the true muonium bound state. We propose a search for the vector state, which kinetically mixes with the photon and dominantly decays to electron-positron pairs. We demonstrate that a search for true muonium produced in eta meson decays and decaying at a displaced vertex can exceed a significance of 5 standard deviations assuming statistical uncertainties. We present two possible searches: an inclusive search for the electron-positron vertex, and an exclusive search which requires an additional photon and a reconstruction of the eta mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xabier Cid Vidal, Philip Ilten, Jonathan Plews, Brian Shuve*, and Yotam Soreq Discovering True Muonium At LHCb (PDF) Physical Review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_author":[23],"class_list":["post-4743","physics_publications","type-physics_publications","status-publish","hentry","publication_author-shuve"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_publications\/4743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_publications"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_author?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}