Muonic hydrogen ground state energy

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The discussion focuses on the ground state energy of muonic hydrogen, emphasizing the use of the Bohr model for approximation. The energy can be calculated by substituting the electron mass with the reduced mass, resulting in an increase of approximately 100 times the electronic hydrogen's ground state energy. The K∞ X-ray energy for muonic hydrogen is approximately 2812 eV, derived from the electronic hydrogen's 1s binding energy of 13.60 eV, adjusted for the muon-to-electron mass ratio and corrections for reduced mass and vacuum polarization.

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Would the energy just be a multiple of how much bigger it is than electron?
 
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You could approximate it using the bohr model. You should work it out in detail to be sure, but I think you would just replace the electron mass with the reduced mass, in the numerator of the ground state energy term... so you would increase the energy by roughly a factor of 100?---maybe.
 
Here in Figure 1 are the main energy levels and K x-ray energies of muonic hydrogen:

http://cern.ch/AccelConf/e94/PDF/EPAC1994_0864.PDF

This shows the K∞ X ray energy, which is the 1s binding energy. Compare to the electronic hydrogen 1s binding energy, at about 13.60 eV.

The two biggest corrections to the muon-to-electron mass ratio (13.6 eV x 105.658/0.511 = 2812 eV) are the corrections for reduced mass and for vacuum polarization (virtual particle shielding of the bare proton charge).

Bob S
 

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