Separated-Oscillatory-Fields Measurement of the Lamb Shift in H, $n = 2$

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2 June 1975

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

Vol. 34 (22) , 1368-1370
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.34.1368

Abstract

The separated-oscillatory-field technique has been used with a fast atomic beam to measure in zero magnetic field the

2 {}^{2}S_{\frac{1}{2}} \to 2 {}^{2}P_{\frac{1}{2}}

Lamb-shift interval in hydrogen. Resonance lines narrower than the natural linewidth by a factor of 3 were used to obtain

S (H, n = 2) = 1057.893 (20)

MHz. This result has a factor of 3 increase in precision over earlier measurements.

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