Towards a Test of QED in Investigations of the Hyperfine Splitting in Heavy Ions

30 April 2001

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

Vol. 86 (18) , 3959-3962
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.3959

Abstract

A possibility for investigations of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in experiments on the hyperfine splitting in heavy ions is examined. It is found that QED effects can be probed on the level of a few percent in a specific difference of the hyperfine splitting values in hydrogenlike and lithiumlike bismuth. This could provide a test of QED in the strongest electric field available at present for experimental study.

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