Ebook: The Hydrogen Atom: Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems

For more than a century, studies of atomic hydrogen have been a rich source of scientific discoveries. These began with the Balmer series in 1885 and the early quantum theo- ries of the atom, and later included the development of QED and the first successful gauge field theory. Today, hydrogen and its relatives continue to provide new fundamental information, as witnessed by the contributions to this book. The printed volume contains invited reviews on the spectroscopy of hydrogen, muonium, positronium, few-electron ions and frequency metrology and the determination of fundamental constants. The accompanying CD contains, in addition to these reviews, a further 40 contributed papers also presented at the conference "Hydrogen Atom 2" held in summer 2000. Finally, to facilitate a historical comparison, the CD also contains the proceedings of the first "Hydrogen Atom" conference of 1988. The book includes a foreword by Norman F. Ramsey.

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For more than a century, studies of atomic hydrogen have been a rich source of scientific discoveries. These began with the Balmer series in 1885 and the early quantum theo- ries of the atom, and later included the development of QED and the first successful gauge field theory. Today, hydrogen and its relatives continue to provide new fundamental information, as witnessed by the contributions to this book. The printed volume contains invited reviews on the spectroscopy of hydrogen, muonium, positronium, few-electron ions and frequency metrology and the determination of fundamental constants. The accompanying CD contains, in addition to these reviews, a further 40 contributed papers also presented at the conference "Hydrogen Atom 2" held in summer 2000. Finally, to facilitate a historical comparison, the CD also contains the proceedings of the first "Hydrogen Atom" conference of 1988. The book includes a foreword by Norman F. Ramsey.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Introduction to Simple Atoms....Pages 1-14
Precision Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen....Pages 17-41
Ultracold Hydrogen....Pages 42-56
Review of High Precision Theory and Experiment for Helium....Pages 57-78
Spectroscopy of the Muonium Atom....Pages 81-102
Experimental Tests of QED in Positronium: Recent Advances....Pages 103-121
A New Type of Frequency Chain and Its Application to Fundamental Frequency Metrology....Pages 125-144
Fundamental Constants and the Hydrogen Atom....Pages 145-156
Present Status of g — 2 of Electron and Muon....Pages 157-175
Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Like and Helium-Like Ions....Pages 179-203
The g Factor of Hydrogenic Ions: A Test of Bound State QED....Pages 204-220
Elementary Relativistic Atoms....Pages 223-245
Antiprotonic Helium — An Exotic Hydrogenic Atom....Pages 246-265
Towards a Precise Measurement of the He+ 2S Lamb Shift....Pages 303-313
High Precision Measurements on Helium at 1083 nm....Pages 314-327
Absolute Frequency Measurement of the 1S-3S Transition in Hydrogen....Pages 328-334
2s Hyperfine Structure in Hydrogen Atom and Helium-3 Ion....Pages 335-343
Three-Loop Slope of the Dirac Form Factor and the 1S Lamb Shift in Hydrogen....Pages 344-351
Radiative Decay of Coupled States in an External dc Field....Pages 352-355
Atomic Interferometer and Coherent Mixing of 2S and 2P States in the Hydrogen Atom....Pages 356-362
Ground State Energy of the Helium Atom....Pages 363-372
Two-Loop Corrections to the Decay Rate of Orthopositronium....Pages 375-386
Recent Results in Positronium Theory....Pages 387-396
Test of CPT and Lorentz Invariance from Muonium Spectroscopy....Pages 397-406
Positronium: Theory Versus Experiment....Pages 407-418
Highly Accurate Theoretical Simulation of the Resonant Multiphoton Ionization Processes With Simplest Atoms....Pages 419-431
Time-of-Flight Spectroscopy of Muonic Hydrogen Atoms and Molecules....Pages 435-445
Hyperfine Structure in Muonic Hydrogen....Pages 446-453
Towards a Measurement of the Lamb Shift in Muonic Hydrogen....Pages 454-466
Antihydrogen Production and Precision Spectroscopy with ATHENA/AD-1....Pages 469-488
Precision Spectroscopy of X-rays from Antiprotonic Hydrogen....Pages 489-499
Charged Pion Mass Determination and Energy — Calibration Standards Based on Pionic X-ray Transitions....Pages 500-507
Pionic Hydrogen: Status and Outlook....Pages 508-516
Antiprotonic Helium “Atomcule”: Relativistic and QED Effects....Pages 517-520
Towards Laser Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen....Pages 521-527
Hyperfine Structure Measurements of Antiprotonic Helium and Antihydrogen....Pages 528-542
Indium Single-Ion Optical Frequency Standard....Pages 545-553
Matter Neutrality Test Using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer....Pages 554-563
Relativistic Corrections in Atoms and Space-Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant....Pages 564-575
Frequency Comparison and Absolute Frequency Measurement of I2-stabilized Lasers at 532 nm....Pages 576-588
A QED Calculation of Electron Interaction for He-Like and Li-Like Highly Charged Ions....Pages 591-604
The gJ Factor of an Electron Bound in Hydrogen-Like Carbon: Status of the Theoretical Predictions....Pages 605-618
Second-Order Self-Energy Calculations for Tightly Bound Electrons in Hydrogen-Like Ions....Pages 619-636
Lamb Shift in Light Hydrogen-Like Atoms....Pages 637-650
The g Factor of a Bound Electron in a Hydrogen-Like Atom....Pages 651-663
Laser Spectroscopy of the 2S Lamb Shift in Hydrogenic Silicon....Pages 664-671
Ground-State Hyperfine Structure of Heavy Hydrogen-Like Ions....Pages 672-678
Measurement of the 1s2p 3P0 - 3P1 Fine Structure Interval in Helium-Like Magnesium....Pages 679-687
Towards a Precision Measurement of the Lamb Shift in Hydrogen-Like Nitrogen....Pages 688-698
Absolute Test of Quantum Electrodynamics for Helium-Like Vanadium....Pages 699-713
Relativistic Recoil Corrections to the Atomic Energy Levels....Pages 714-726
X-Ray Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Like Ions in an Electron Beam Ion Trap....Pages 727-736
CPT-Invariant Eight-Component Two-Fermion Equation....Pages 739-745
The Two-Time Green’s Function and Screened Self-Energy for Two-Electron Quasi-Degenerate States....Pages 746-752
Higher-Order Stark Effect on Magnetic Fine Structure of the Helium Atom....Pages 753-761
Radiation Properties of Diamagnetic Manifolds in Atomic Hydrogen: Line Intensity Dependence on a Magnetic Field....Pages 762-775
Precise Evaluation of the Electron (g - 2) at 4 loops: The Algebraic Way....Pages 776-783
Loop-After-Loop Contribution to the Second-Order Self-Energy in Hydrogen....Pages 784-799
Back Matter....Pages 800-809
....Pages 285-290