Experimental Inner-Electron Binding Energies inand Limits on Electrodynamic Nonlinearities
- 20 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (12), 711-713
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.711
Abstract
Our earlier experimental value for the binding energy in (141.967±0.013 keV) agrees with a precision relativistic Hartree-Fock calculation using linear electrodynamics to 2±35 eV. This result is compared with a recent approximate calculation of the reduction (3.3 keV) in this binding energy when Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics is used, and it indicates that such nonlinearities are limited to the order of 1% of Born-Infeld theory.
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