189 research outputs found
Hyperfine structure of S states in Li and Be^+
A large-scale configuration-interaction (CI) calculation is reported for the
hyperfine splitting of the 2^2S and 3^2S states of ^7Li and ^9Be^+. The CI
calculation based on the Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian is supplemented with a
separate treatment of the QED, nuclear-size, nuclear-magnetization
distribution, and recoil corrections. The nonrelativistic limit of the CI
results is in excellent agreement with variational calculations. The
theoretical values obtained for the hyperfine splitting are complete to the
relative order of \alpha^2 and improve upon results of previous studies.Comment: 4 pages, 2 table
Two-Loop Bethe Logarithms for non-S Levels
Two-loop Bethe logarithms are calculated for excited P and D states in
hydrogenlike systems, and estimates are presented for all states with higher
angular momenta. These results complete our knowledge of the P and D energy
levels in hydrogen at the order of alpha^8 m_e c^2, where m_e is the electron
mass and c is the speed of light, and scale as Z^6, where Z is the nuclear
charge number. Our analytic and numerical calculations are consistent with the
complete absence of logarithmic terms of order (alpha/pi)^2 (Z alpha)^6 ln[(Z
alpha)^(-2)] m_e c^2 for D states and all states with higher angular momenta.
For higher excited P and D states, a number of poles from lower-lying levels
have to subtracted in the numerical evaluation. We find that, surprisingly, the
corrections of the "squared decay-rate type" are the numerically dominant
contributions in the order (alpha/pi)^2 (Z alpha)^6 m_e c^2 for states with
large angular momenta, and provide an estimate of the entire B_60-coefficient
for Rydberg states with high angular momentum quantum numbers. Our results
reach the predictive limits of the quantum electrodynamic theory of the Lamb
shift.Comment: 14 pages, RevTe
Lamb shift in muonic deuterium atom
We present new investigation of the Lamb shift (2P_{1/2}-2S_{1/2}) in muonic
deuterium (mu d) atom using the three-dimensional quasipotential method in
quantum electrodynamics. The vacuum polarization, nuclear structure and recoil
effects are calculated with the account of contributions of orders alpha^3,
alpha^4, alpha^5 and alpha^6. The results are compared with earlier performed
calculations. The obtained numerical value of the Lamb shift 202.4139 meV can
be considered as a reliable estimate for the comparison with forthcoming
experimental data.Comment: 24 pages, 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:hep-ph/061229
Hadronic Vacuum Polarization and the Lamb Shift
Recent improvements in the determination of the running of the fine-structure
constant also allow an update of the hadronic vacuum-polarization contribution
to the Lamb shift. We find a shift of -3.40(7) kHz to the 1S level of hydrogen.
We also comment on the contribution of this effect to the determination by
elastic electron scattering of the r.m.s. radii of nuclei.Comment: 7 pages, latex, 1 figure -- Submitted to Phys. Rev. A -- epsfig.sty
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Stark shift and parity non-conservation for near-degenerate states of xenon
We identify a pair of near-degenerate states of opposite parity in atomic Xe,
the 5p^5 10s \,\, ^2[3/2]_2^o at cm and 5p^5 6f
\,\, ^2[5/2]_2 at cm, for which parity- and
time-odd effects are expected to be enhanced by the small energy separation. We
present theoretical calculations which indicate narrow widths for both states
and we report a calculated value for the weak matrix element, arising from
configuration mixing, of Hz for Xe. In addition, we measured
the Stark effect of the and
() states. The Stark-shift of the states
is observed to be negative, revealing the presence of nearby states at
higher energies, which have not been observed before. The Stark-shift
measurements imply an upper limit on the weak matrix element of Hz
for the near-degenerate states (10s \,\, ^2[3/2]_2^o and 6f \,\,
^2[5/2]_2), which is in agreement with the presented calculations.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
Two-Loop Bethe Logarithms for Higher Excited S Levels
Processes mediated by two virtual low-energy photons contribute quite
significantly to the energy of hydrogenic S states. The corresponding level
shift is of the order of (alpha/pi)^2 (Zalpha)^6 m_e c^2 and may be ascribed to
a two-loop generalization of the Bethe logarithm. For 1S and 2S states, the
correction has recently been evaluated by Pachucki and Jentschura [Phys. Rev.
Lett. vol. 91, 113005 (2003)]. Here, we generalize the approach to higher
excited S states, which in contrast to the 1S and 2S states can decay to P
states via the electric-dipole (E1) channel. The more complex structure of the
excited-state wave functions and the necessity to subtract P-state poles lead
to additional calculational problems. In addition to the calculation of the
excited-state two-loop energy shift, we investigate the ambiguity in the energy
level definition due to squared decay rates.Comment: 14 pages, RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Lamb shift in muonic helium ion
The Lamb shift (2P_{1/2}-2S_{1/2}) in the muonic helium ion (mu ^4_2He)^+ is
calculated with the account of contributions of orders alpha^3, alpha^4,
alpha^5 and alpha^6. Special attention is given to corrections of the electron
vacuum polarization, the nuclear structure and recoil effects. The obtained
numerical value of the Lamb shift 1379.028 meV can be considered as a reliable
estimate for the comparison with experimental data.Comment: 18 pages, 11 figure
Relativistic corrections of order m\alpha^6 to the two-center problem
Effective potentials of the relativistic m\alpha^6 order correction for the
ground state of the Coulomb two-center problem are calculated. They can be used
to evaluate the relativistic contribution of that order to the energies of
hydrogen molecular ions or metastable states of the antiprotonic helium atom,
where precision spectroscopic data are available. In our studies we use the
variational expansion based on randomly chosen exponents that permits to
achieve high numerical accuracy.Comment: 12 pages, 3 tables 2 figures; submitted to the Journal of Physics
Ground State Hyperfine Structure of Muonic Helium Atom
On the basis of the perturbation theory in the fine structure constant
and the ratio of the electron to muon masses we calculate one-loop
vacuum polarization and electron vertex corrections and the nuclear structure
corrections to the hyperfine splitting of the ground state of muonic helium
atom . We obtain total result for the ground state hyperfine
splitting MHz which improves the previous
calculation of Lakdawala and Mohr due to the account of new corrections. The
remaining difference between the theoretical result and experimental value of
the hyperfine splitting equal to 0.522 MHz lies in the range of theoretical
error and requires the subsequent investigation of higher order corrections.Comment: Talk presented at the scientific session-conference of Nuclear
Physics Department RAS "Physics of fundamental interactions", 25-30 November
2007, ITEP, Moscow, 18 pages, 5 figure
Relativistic calculations of pionic and kaonic atoms hyperfine structure
We present the relativistic calculation of the hyperfine structure in pionic
and kaonic atoms. A perturbation method has been applied to the Klein-Gordon
equation to take into account the relativistic corrections. The perturbation
operator has been obtained \textit{via} a multipole expansion of the nuclear
electromagnetic potential. The hyperfine structure of pionic and kaonic atoms
provide an additional term in the quantum electrodynamics calculation of the
energy transition of these systems. Such a correction is required for a recent
measurement of the pion mass
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