Lamb Shift in Heliumlike Uranium ( $U^{90 +}$ )

8 December 1986

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 57 (23), 2927-2930
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.2927

Abstract

We report a value of 70.4 ± 8.3 eV for the one-electron Lamb shift in uranium, in agreement with the theoretical value of 75.3 ± 0.4 eV. We extract our Lamb shift from a beam-foil time-of-flight measurement of the (54.4 ± 3.4)-ps lifetime of the

1 s 2 p_{\frac{1}{2}} {}^{3}P_{0}

state of heliumlike uranium.

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Lamb Shift in Heliumlike Uranium ( $U^{90 +}$ )