Recent Advances in the Theory of the Hydrogen Lamb Shift

• Authors: H. Grotch
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

compared to experiment. Recent corrections from radiative recoil of order α(Zα)^{5}m^{2}/M and pure recoil of order (Zα)^{6}m^{2}/M are reviewed. Contributions of order α^{2}(Zα)^{5}m have been calculated from certain classes of diagrams. These are described while other as yet uncalculated terms are mentioned. The largest error in the theory is the uncertain measured value of the proton electromagnetic radius.

Keywords

EN

12.20.Ds; 12.20.Fv; 11.10.St

Discipline

• 12.20.Ds: Specific calculations
• 12.20.Fv: Experimental tests(for optical tests in quantum electrodynamics, see 42.50.Xa)
• 11.10.St: Bound and unstable states; Bethe-Salpeter equations

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1994
• Volume: 85
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 741-758

Dates

published

1994-04

Contributors

author

H. Grotch

• 104 Davey Laboratory, Department of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.85.741