Trace anomaly contribution to hydrogen atom mass
Abstract
We compute trace anomaly contribution to hydrogen atom mass, which turns out to be related to the part of the Lamb shift. To the best of our knowledge, this is a first model independent calculation of trace anomaly contribution to a bound state. This finding might shed new light on our understandings of the mass structure of QCD bound states, such as, heavy quarkonium.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- September 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.056008
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2012.09443
- Bibcode:
- 2021PhRvD.104e6008S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 3 figures