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Order (alpha2 Gamma, alpha3 Gamma) Binding Effects in Orthopositronium Decay

Richard J. Hill, G. Peter Lepage

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0003277

Abstract

We present a new, simplified analysis of the low-energy electron-positron interaction, and use the resulting effective theory to calculate the binding effects that contribute to the decay rate, Gamma, of orthopositronium, through Order(alpha3 ln(alpha) Gamma). We express the total decay rate in terms of the annihilation rate for a free electron and positron at threshold, which has just recently been computed to sufficient precision. Our result corrects errors in a previous analysis.

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