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The two-loop self-energy for the ground state of medium-Z hydrogen-like ions

Atomic Physics 2015-05-14 v1

Abstract

The two-loop self-energy correction to the ground state Lamb shift is calculated for hydrogen-like ions with the nuclear charge Z=10-30 without any expansion in the binding field of the nucleus. A calculational technique is reported for treatment of Feynman diagrams in the mixed coordinate-momentum representation, which yields significant improvement in numerical accuracy as compared to previous results. An extrapolation of the all-order numerical data towards Z=1 yields a result for the higher-order remainder function for hydrogen. The previously reported disagreement between the all-order and the perturbative approaches is reduced to the marginal agreement.

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@article{arxiv.0908.3754,
  title  = {The two-loop self-energy for the ground state of medium-Z hydrogen-like ions},
  author = {V. A. Yerokhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3754},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 1 table, 3 figures