Recoil corrections to Rydberg energy levels in helium

Autor: C. K. Au, Joseph Sucher, Gerald Feinberg
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics. 43(1)
ISSN: 1050-2947
Popis: We study the question of recoil corrections to Rydberg energy levels in helium, making use of a formalism in which the He-ion core is treated as an elementary particle of spin 1/2 and the Rydberg atom is regarded as a relativistic two-body bound state, described by a ``no-pair'' wave equation. We show that when recoil effects are correctly included, the agreement with experiment for the n=10 levels of He is improved.
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