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Lamb‐shift measurements in high‐Z atoms test QED

FEB 01, 1972

DOI: 10.1063/1.3070721

Marian S. Rothenberg

Atomic physicists have been awaiting reliable measurements of the Lamb shift in high‐Z atoms as a sensitive test of quantum electrodynamics. Now a team from Bell Telephone Laboratories reports a value of 780.1±8.0 GHz for carbon, atomic number 6, that agrees with the most recent predictions of QED, 783.7±0.25 GHz.

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Volume 25, Number 2

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