Fine and hyperfine structure of <Emphasis Type="Italic">P</Emphasis>-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, Δ? ^hfs(2P _1/2) = 7819.80 µeV, and Δ? ^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.