Measurement of the Lamb Shift in Muonium
- 12 March 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 52 (11) , 910-913
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.910
Abstract
The Lamb shift in muonium has been measured for the first time by a beam-foil-spectroscopy radio-frequency technique. The value obtained is MHz, with a systematic uncertainty of 2 MHz, compared with the present theoretical value of 1047.03 MHz.
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