Dielectronic Resonance Method for Measuring Isotope Shifts
Atomic Physics
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
Longstanding problems in the comparison of very accurate hyperfine-shift measurements to theory were partly overcome by precise measurements on few-electron highly-charged ions. Still the agreement between theory and experiment is unsatisfactory. In this paper, we present a radically new way of precisely measuring hyperfine shifts, and demonstrate its effectiveness in the case of the hyperfine shift of and in . It is based on the precise detection of dielectronic resonances that occur in electron-ion recombination at very low energy. This allows us to determine the hyperfine constant to around 0.6 meV accuracy which is on the order of 10%.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0604005,
title = {Dielectronic Resonance Method for Measuring Isotope Shifts},
author = {R. Schuch and E. Lindroth and S. Madzunkov and M. Fogle and T. Mohamed and Paul Indelicato},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0604005},
year = {2009}
}