Published March 18, 1991
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Journal article
Measurement of the Lamb shift in lithiumlike uranium (U89+)
Creators
- 1. One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720
- 2. Accelerator and Fusion Research Division, Building 51-208, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- 3. Chemical Sciences Division, Building 71-259, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (USA)
Description
The 22P1/2-22S1/2 (lowest-excited-state to ground-state) energy splitting in lithiumlike uranium, which has large quantum-electrodynamic corrections, has been measured using Doppler-tuned spectrometry. Our result, 280.59±0.10 eV, is more precise than current theory and is an 80-fold improvement over the previous most precise measurement of the Lamb shift in (heliumlike) uranium
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 66
- Journal Issue
- 11
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 1434-1437
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22061543
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- LAMB SHIFT; MEASURING METHODS; MEV RANGE 10-100; MULTICHARGED IONS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; URANIUM IONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ATOMIC IONS; CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD THEORIES; IONS; MEV RANGE; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPECTRAL SHIFT