Fine and hyperfine structure of P-wave levels in muonic hydrogen

Corrections of order α 5 and α 6 are calculated for muonic hydrogen in the fine-structure interval ΔE fs = E(2P 3/2) − E(2P 1/2) and in the hyperfine structure of the 2P 1/2-and 2P 3/2-wave energy levels. The resulting values of ΔE fs = 8352.08 µeV, ΔẼ hfs(2P 1/2) = 7819.80 µeV, and ΔẼ hfs(2P 3/2) = 3248.03 µeV provide reliable guidelines in performing a comparison with relevant experimental data and in more precisely extracting the experimental value of the (2P–2S) Lamb shift in the muonic-hydrogen atom.