The Spectrum of Atomic Hydrogen--advances: A Collection of Progress Reports by ExpertsAfter more than a century of study, the hydrogen atom still presents challenges and opportunities to theoretical as well as to experimental physicists. The discovery of the Lamb shift in the late nineteen forties, followed by the development of QED and the introduction of powerful new experimental techniques in the nineteen sixties and seventies, have preserved for hydrogen its central place in atomic physics. Part I of this book, a reprint of the work published in 1957, covers the period from the earliest days up to the late nineteen fifties. Part II, a collection of progress reports written by well-known specialists on hydrogen and hydrogen-like systems, presents the advances in theory and experiment that have occurred since that time. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Gross Structure | 8 |
Positronium | 12 |
Old Quantum TheoryComparison with Experiment | 13 |
4 | 14 |
3 | 19 |
7 | 25 |
New Quantum TheoryComparison with Experiment | 32 |
Introduction | 245 |
1 | 247 |
2 | 257 |
2 | 261 |
3 | 278 |
References | 287 |
1 | 295 |
4 | 323 |
The New Quantum Electrodynamics | 41 |
5 | 47 |
Further Measurements of Lamb Shifts | 54 |
Hyperfine Structure | 66 |
6 | 80 |
Acknowledgements | 83 |
3 | 85 |
| 88 | |
5 | 99 |
Production of hydrogenic atoms | 105 |
Introduction | 113 |
5 | 119 |
9 | 125 |
Spectroscopy of OneElectron Ions of Intermediate | 128 |
Theory of Transitions and the Electroweak Interaction | 137 |
83 | 140 |
88 | 165 |
8 | 199 |
243 | 206 |
6 | 328 |
4 | 342 |
6 | 362 |
1 | 369 |
7 | 384 |
spectrum | 393 |
of the diamagnetic manifolds 72 n | 407 |
Elementary views on the symmetries of the Coloumb interaction | 413 |
The low field regimes and breaking the Coulomb symmetry | 423 |
9 | 436 |
References | 439 |
1 | 449 |
Positronium mass | 452 |
| 466 | |
2 | 472 |
Hydrogen and the Fundamental Atomic Constants | 481 |
| 503 | |
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