RECOIL CORRECTIONS TO RYDBERG ENERGY-LEVELS IN HELIUM

被引:9
作者
AU, CK
FEINBERG, G
SUCHER, J
机构
[1] COLUMBIA UNIV, DEPT PHYS, NEW YORK, NY 10027 USA
[2] UNIV MARYLAND, DEPT PHYS, COLLEGE PK, MD 20742 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1991年 / 43卷 / 01期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.43.561
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We study the question of recoil corrections to Rydberg energy levels in helium, making use of a formalism in which the He-ion core is treated as an elementary particle of spin 1/2 and the Rydberg atom is regarded as a relativistic two-body bound state, described by a "no pair" wave equation. We show that when recoil effects are correctly included, the agreement with experiment for the n = 10 levels of He is improved.
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页码:561 / 564
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