Self-energy of electrons in critical fields
The energy shift of K electrons in heavy atoms due to the self-energy correction has been calculated. This process is treated to all orders in Zα, where Z denotes the nuclear charge. For the superheavy system Z=170, where the K-shell binding energy reaches the pair-production threshold (E1sb∼2mc2), a shift of +11.0 keV is found. This shift is almost cancelled by the vacuum polarization, leaving a negligible effect for all quantum-electrodynamical corrections of order α but all orders of Zα.
| Author: | Gerhard Soff, Paul Schlüter, Berndt Müller, Walter Greiner |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-29246 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 30.06.2006 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1982 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Source: | Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1465~V1468 (1982), ©1982 The American Physical Society, http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v48/p1465 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 187242143 |
| Institutes: | Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 530 Physik |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
