High Resolution Spectroscopy of the Hydrogen Atom: Determination of theLamb Shift
- 15 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (3) , 384-387
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.384
Abstract
We have measured the Lamb shift by comparing the frequencies of the and or two-photon transitions. Our result is 8172.798 (46) MHz. It is the most precise yet reported and is consistent with the larger existing proton radius measurement of .
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