Accession Number:

AD0258394

Title:

LAMB SHIFT IN THE HELIUM ATOM

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• SCHWARTZ,CHARLES

Report Date:

1960-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

1.0

Abstract:

The calculation, first attempted by Kabir and Salpeter, Phys. Rev. 1081256, 1957, of the mean excitation energy entering in the Lamb shift of the helium ground state is redone by a different approach. The answer, Ln Kory equals 4.370 or - 0.004, leaves theory and experiment on the ionization energy of helium in agreement within the experimental uncertainty of or 10.15 cm. Incidental results are given for the electrostatic polarizability of He and H- ground states there is appended a new discussion of the construction of higher angular momentum eigenfunctions for the 3-body problem. Author

Descriptors:

• *ATOMIC ENERGY LEVELS
• *ATOMS
• *EXCITATION
• *HELIUM
• CORRECTIONS
• DIGITAL COMPUTERS
• HYDROGEN
• INTEGRALS
• IONIZATION
• IONS
• MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
• PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE