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Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3959–3962 (2001)

Towards a Test of QED in Investigations of the Hyperfine Splitting in Heavy Ions

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V. M. Shabaev1,2, A. N. Artemyev3, V. A. Yerokhin1,4, O. M. Zherebtsov2, and G. Soff5
1Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
2Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Oulianovskaya 1, Petrodvorets, St. Petersburg 198904, Russia
3Centro de Qúmica Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cient´ficas, IVIC Apartado 21827, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela
4Institute for High Performance Computing and Data Bases, Fontanka 118, St. Petersburg 198005, Russia
5Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Dresden, Mommsenstraße 13, D-01062 Dresden, Germany

Received 2 February 2001; published in the issue dated 30 April 2001

A possibility for investigations of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in experiments on the hyperfine splitting in heavy ions is examined. It is found that QED effects can be probed on the level of a few percent in a specific difference of the hyperfine splitting values in hydrogenlike and lithiumlike bismuth. This could provide a test of QED in the strongest electric field available at present for experimental study.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3959
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3959
PACS:
12.20.-m, 31.30.Gs, 31.30.Jv
 
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