====== TTP99-24 Virtual annihilation contribution to orthopositronium decay rate ====== Order alpha^2 contribution to the orthopositronium decay rate due to one-photon virtual annihilation is found to be delta Gamma = (alpha/pi)^2 (pi^2 ln(alpha) - 0.8622(9))Gamma_LO. |**Gregory Adkins, Kirill Melnikov and Alexander Yelkhovsky** | |** Phys. Rev. A60 3306 1999 ** | | {{preprints:1999:ttp99-24.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:1999:ttp99-24.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9905553|arXiv]] | | |