(1) Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK;(2) Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH, D 64291 Darmstadt, Germany;(3) Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Abstract:
Novel methods for determining the 1s Lamb shift of hydrogenic ions are outlined. In one method the energy of a 2–1 transition
in the hydrogenic ion of nuclear charge Z is compared to a 4–2 transition in the hydrogenic ion of charge 2Z. A second method exploits close coincidences between Lyman series transitions in ions of similar Z.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.