Reexamination of helium fine structure

Details Reexamination of helium fine structure Reexamination of helium fine structure

2009-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/0905.3046v1

Phys. Rev. A 79, 062516 (2009); Phys. Rev. A 80, 019902(E) (2009)

Physics

Atomic Physics

19 pages

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In order to explain discrepancies between theoretical predictions and experimental data for the helium fine structure, we check and recalculate all theoretical contributions up to orders m\alpha^7 and m^2/M\alpha^6. The previous result for the m\alpha^7 correction is improved by a much more accurate calculation of relativistic corrections to the Bethe logarithm. The theoretical values of the 2^3P_0-2^3P_1 and 2^3P_1-2^3P_2 fine structure intervals in helium are, correspondingly, \nu_{01} = 29616946.2(1.6) kHz and \nu_{12} = 2291177.3(1.6) kHz, with the uncertanties being due to higher-order effects. For the small interval \nu_{12}, the theoretical value agrees with the experimental data, whereas for the large interval \nu_{01}, a discrepancy of about 3 standard deviations is present.

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