Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Two problems

There was unexpected progress, posted at Physics Stack Exchange, on two problems that were low on my list.

First, numerology of the charge radius. See my 2017 update: I ran across a model of the nucleon in which the radius is 4 natural units, divided by the mass. That doesn't explain why the radius comes out a little different for muonic hydrogen compared to electronic hydrogen; but it can explain why dandb's ratio is approximately 4 in both cases.

Second, mystery of the Z0 decay width - that it lies on the same curve as a number of mesons. It's one of @arivero's minor observations, and not one that I spent any time on. I was just going through the motions of investigating it, when to my surprise, something turned up.

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