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$g$ Factor of Lithiumlike Silicon: New Challenge to Bound-State QED

Atomic Physics 2019-10-30 v1

Abstract

The recently established agreement between experiment and theory for the gg factors of lithiumlike silicon and calcium ions manifests the most stringent test of the many-electron bound-state quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects in the presence of a magnetic field. In this Letter, we present a significant simultaneous improvement of both theoretical gth=2.0008898944(34)g_\text{th} = 2.000\,889\,894\,4\,(34) and experimental gexp=2.00088988845(14)g_\text{exp} = 2.000\,889\,888\,45\,(14) values of the gg factor of lithiumlike silicon 28^{28}Si11+^{11+}. The theoretical precision now is limited by the many-electron two-loop contributions of the bound-state QED. The experimental value is accurate enough to test these contributions on a few percent level.

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@article{arxiv.1903.11609,
  title  = {$g$ Factor of Lithiumlike Silicon: New Challenge to Bound-State QED},
  author = {D. A. Glazov and F. Köhler-Langes and A. V. Volotka and F. Heiße and K. Blaum and G. Plunien and W. Quint and V. M. Shabaev and S. Sturm and G. Werth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.11609},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure