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 SoffGND, Paul Schlüter, Berndt MüllerORCiDGND, Walter GreinerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-29246 |
| URL: | http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v48/p1465 |
| Parent Title (German): | Physical review letters |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2006/06/30 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1982 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2006/06/30 |
| Volume: | 48 |
| Issue: | 21 |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| First Page: | 1465 |
| Last Page: | 1468 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 187242143 |
| Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
