Published January 2001 | Version v1
Journal article

Calculation of QED Effects in Hydrogen

  • 1. Technische Universitaet Dresden, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik (Germany)
  • 2. National Institute of Standards and Technology (United States)

Description

Atomic mass differences are influenced by QED corrections, and a reliable understanding of these corrections is therefore of importance for the current and next generation of high-precision mass determinations based on Penning traps. We present a numerical evaluation of the self-energy correction, which is the dominant contribution to the Lamb shift, in the region of low nuclear charge. Our calculation is nonperturbative in the binding field and has a numerical uncertainty of 0.8Hz in atomic hydrogen for the ground state and of 1.0Hz for L-shell states (2S1/2, 2P1/2, and 2P3/2)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Hyperfine Interactions
Journal Volume
132
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 373-375
ISSN
0304-3843
CODEN
HYINDN

Conference

Title
52. ASMS conference of mass spectrometry and allied topics
Acronym
APAC2000
Dates
19-23 Sep 2000
Place
Cargese (France)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40085659
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; ATOMIC NUMBER; CORRECTIONS; EVALUATION; GROUND STATES; HYDROGEN; L SHELL; LAMB SHIFT; MASS DIFFERENCE; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; SELF-ENERGY; TRAPS
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELEMENTS; ENERGY; ENERGY LEVELS; FIELD THEORIES; NONMETALS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPECTRAL SHIFT

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Copyright (c) 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers