Abstract
Hydrogenic fluorine atoms in the 2S12 metastable state were produced at 64 MeV by use of a tandem electrostatic accelerator and suitable combinations of stripper and adder carbon foils. A pulsed HBr laser centered at 2382.52 cm-1 was Doppler-shift tuned through the 2S12-2P32 energy separation to yield a resonance in Lyman- x rays at 826 eV. This technique yields a value for the Lamb-shift splitting (2S12-2P12) equal to 3339 35 GHz which is presently in agreement with several quantum electrodynamic calculations.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 647-650 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1975 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy