Leading radiative correction to the magnetic dipole transition probability

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1 June 1974

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

Vol. 9 (6) , 2799-2801
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.9.2799

Abstract

It has recently been suggested that a radiative correction of relative order

α \ln α

may contribute to the

1 s 2 s {}^{3}S_{1} - 1 s^{2} {}^{1}S_{0}

magnetic dipole transition of the heliumlike ions. The low-frequency contributions to the correction are evaluated and shown to vanish.

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