Theory of Light Hydrogenic Bound States

Michael I. Eides, Howard Grotch, Valery A. Shelyuto (auth.)9783540452690, 3-540-45269-9

The book describes the modern theory of light hydrogen-like systems, and the discussion is based on quantum electrodynamics. In particular, Green’s functions, relativistic bound-state equations and Feynman diagrams are extensively used. New theoretical approaches are described and explained. The book contains derivation of many theoretical results obtained in recent years. A complete set of all theoretical results for the energy levels of hydrogen-like bound states, as well as comparison with experiment, is presented.

Table of contents :
Theoretical Approaches to the Energy Levels of Loosely Bound Systems….Pages 1-12
General Features of the Hydrogen Energy Levels….Pages 13-18
External Field Approximation….Pages 19-80
Essentially Two-Particle Recoil Corrections….Pages 81-98
Radiative-Recoil Corrections….Pages 99-107
Nuclear Size and Structure Corrections….Pages 109-130
Lamb Shift in Light Muonic Atoms….Pages 131-159
Physical Origin of the Hyperfine Splitting and the Main Nonrelativistic Contribution….Pages 161-164
Nonrecoil Corrections to HFS….Pages 165-192
Essentially Two-Body Corrections to HFS….Pages 193-215
Hyperfine Splitting in Hydrogen….Pages 217-232
Notes on Phenomenology….Pages 233-257