Measurement of the Lamb Shift in Hydrogen, n=2
Abstract
A measurement based on the fast-atomic-beam separated-oscillatory-field method of sub-natural-linewidth spectroscopy gives, for the Lamb shift in hydrogen, S(n=2)=1057.845(9) MHz. The result is not in good agreement with theory.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.232
- Bibcode:
- 1981PhRvL..46..232L
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Energy Levels;
- Atomic Physics;
- Electromagnetic Interactions;
- Hydrogen Atoms;
- Quantum Electrodynamics;
- Ground State;
- Metastable State;
- Quenching (Atomic Physics);
- Atomic and Molecular Physics;
- 35.10.Fk;
- 32.70.Jz;
- Line shapes widths and shifts