Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems (Lecture Notes in Physics, 627)

✍ Scribed by Savely G. Karshenboim (editor), Valery B. Smirnov (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Edition: 2003
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Precision physics of simple atoms is a multidisciplinary area, involving atomic, laser, nuclear and particle physics and also metrology. This book will thus be of interest to a broad community of physicists and metrologists. Furthermore, since hydrogen (and other hydrogen-like atoms) is a model system for applying quantum theory, the book contains valuable material for students. The chapters provide in-depth reviews covering precision measurements, accurate calculations, fundamental constants, frequency standards, and tests of fundamental theory. The latest progress in each of these areas is also described for the specialist. The topics selected for this book are largely complementary to those of the earlier related volume, LNP 570.

✦ Table of Contents

front-matter
Chapter 1
1 Introduction
2 Recent Progress in the Study of Hydrogen and Helium
3 Progress in the Study of Muonium and Positronium
4 Progress in the Precision Study of Highly Charged Ions
5 Advances in Determination of Fundamental Constants
6 New Results on Precision Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics
7 Search for Variations of the Fundamental Constants
8 Study of Muonic and Exotic Atoms
9 Quantum Mechanics of Hydrogen-Like Atoms: Tutorial
10 About PSAS 2002 Conference
Chapter 2
1 Coulomb Green Function for the Schr¨odinger Equation
2 Sturmian Expansion
3 Two-Photon Decay of Atomic Levels
4 Lamb Shift in the Hydrogen Atom
5 Nonresonant Corrections in Atomic Hydrogen
6 Relativistic Coulomb Green Function
7 Relativistic Polarizability of the H-Like Ions
Chapter 3
1 Introduction
2 Atomic Cascade
3 Muonic Hydrogen
4 Pionic Hydrogen
5 Kaonic Hydrogen
6 Antiprotonic Hydrogen
7 Conclusion
Chapter 4
1 Introduction
2 Myths of Nuclear Physics
3 The Nuclear Force
4 Calculations of Light Nuclei
5 What Nuclear Physics Can Do for Atomic Physics
6 The Proton Size
7 What Atomic Physics Can Do for Nuclear Physics
8 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 5
1 Pionic Atoms – Old History and New Frontier
2 Prediction for Quasi-Stable Pionic Nuclei
3 Observation of Deeply Bound Pionic States
4 Pion-Nucleus Interaction
5 Evidence for In-Medium Restoration of Chiral Symmetry
Chapter 6
1 Introduction
2 Derivation of the Virial Relations for the Dirac Equation
3 Application of the Virial Relations for Evaluation of the Average Values
4 Application of the Virial Relations for Calculations of Higher-Order Corrections
5 Calculations of the Bound-Electron g Factor and the Hyper.ne Splitting in H-Like Atoms
6 Other Applications of the Virial Relations
7 Conclusion
Chapter 7
1 Introduction
2 The Storage Ring ESR
3 X-Ray Spectroscopy at the ESR
3.1 The Experimental Challenge: Doppler Corrections
3.2 Experiments at the Electron Cooler
3.3 Experiments at the Internal Gasjet Target
3.4 Experimental Results in Comparison with Theory
3.5 Towards an Accuracy of 1 eV
4 Summary and Outlook
Chapter 8
1 Introduction
2 Rydberg Constant and Lamb Shift in Hydrogen
3 Hyper.ne Structure and Nuclear E.ects
4 Hyper.ne Structure of the 2s State in Hydrogen, Deuterium, and Helium-3 Ion
5 Hyper.ne Structure in Muonium and Positronium
6 g Factor of Bound Electron and Muon in Muonium
7 g Factor of a Bound Electron in a Hydrogen-Like Ion with Spinless Nucleus
8 The Fine Structure Constant
9 Summary
Chapter 9
1 Introduction
2 Muon (g–2) Experiment E821 at BNL
3 Magnetic Field Measurement and Control
4 Data Analysis and Results
5 Standard Model Prediction for aµ
6 Outlook
Chapter 10
1 Overview
2 Scienti.c Applications
3 Experimental Techniques
3.1 SQUID Detector

3.3 Pulse and Phase Technique
3.4 Separate Oscillatory Field Technique
3.5 Making a Mass Table
4 Simultaneous Measurements
4.1 Two–Ion Loading Techniques
4.2 Diagnostic Tools
4.3 Preliminary Results
5 Subthermal Detection
5.1 Classical Squeezing
5.2 Electronic Refrigeration
6 Conclusion
Chapter 11
1 Introduction
2 Tests for Possible Variations of Fundamental Constants
2.1 Local Tests
2.2 Quasar Spectra
2.3 Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
2.4 Primordial Nucleosynthesis
3 Conclusions
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