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Shift in the Lamb shift

OCT 01, 1966
Physics Today

The Lamb shift in the first excited state of hydrogen is higher than the value found by Willis E. Lamb Jr, and his colleagues in 1953, according to a remeasurement by Richard T. Robiscoe and Barry L. Cosens of Yale University [Phys. Rev. Letters 17, 69 (1966)]. The new measurement disagrees even more with current theoretical predictions.

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