Although muons have a half-life of 2.2 µs, physical chemists have been able to construct various muonic elements out of them. Replacing the electron with a muon in hydrogen, what is the Bohr radius (in m) of this muonic hydrogen in the ground state? (The mass of a muon is 1.88 ✕ 10−28 kg.)

Although muons have a half-life of 2.2 µs, physical chemists have been able to construct various muonic elements out of them. Replacing the electron with a muon in hydrogen, what is the Bohr radius (in m) of this muonic hydrogen in the ground state? (The mass of a muon is 1.88 ✕ 10−28 kg.)

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