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Shift in the Lamb shift

OCT 01, 1966

DOI: 10.1063/1.3047779

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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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Volume 19, Number 10

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