Deuterium Lamb shift via quenching-radiation anisotropy measurements

1 April 1978

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 17 (4) , 1366-1374
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.17.1366

Abstract

The Lamb shift of a hydrogenic ion can be deduced from the anisotropy in the angular distribution of the

2 s_{\frac{1}{2}} - 1 s_{\frac{1}{2}}

electric field quenching radiation. The accuracy of our previous anisotropy measurement for deuterium is improved to about ± 150 ppm. The derived Lamb shift is (1059.36±0.16) MHz. The sources of error are carefully analyzed and the prospects for further improvements in the accuracy are discussed.

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