Complete $\alpha^7\,m$ Lamb shift of helium triplet states
Atomic Physics
2021-04-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We have derived the complete formula for the contribution to energy levels of an arbitrary triplet state of the helium atom, performed numerical calculations for the and states, and thus improved the theoretical accuracy of ionization energies of these states by more than an order of magnitude. Using the nuclear charge radius extracted from the muonic helium Lamb shift, we obtain the theoretical prediction in excellent agreement with the measured transition energy [X.~Zheng et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 199}, 263002 (2017)]. At the same time we observe significant discrepancies with experiments for the and transitions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.01037,
title = {Complete $\alpha^7\,m$ Lamb shift of helium triplet states},
author = {Vojtěch Patkóš and Vladimir A. Yerokhin and Krzysztof Pachucki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.01037},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
10 pages, added a few references