Precision Physics of Simple Atoms and Molecules

S. G. Karshenboim (auth.), Savely G. Karshenboim (eds.)3540754784, 9783540754787

This is the third in a series of topical-review volumes about the precision physics of simple atoms all published in LNP. The simplicity of atoms allows one to use them as a tool to explore effects beyond atomic physics ranging from fundamental constants and fundamental symmetries to particle and nuclear properties. This volume, like its predecessors, presents multidisciplinary treatments of important areas and new developments within precision physics. It concentrates on new topics and those not treated in the previous volumes. For example, on the proton structure and its effects on the energy levels, on simple molecules, on atoms somewhat more complicated than hydrogen (such as lithium), on exotic atoms and atoms with exotic nuclei.

The book includes a foreword by Nobel Prize Laureate Theodor Hänsch.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-XIV
Front Matter….Pages 1-1
Looking Through Simple Atoms and Molecules at Fundamental Physics….Pages 1-5
Front Matter….Pages 7-7
The Muon g —: Status and Perspectives….Pages 9-34
Guide for Atomic and Particle Physicists to CODATA’s Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants….Pages 35-53
Front Matter….Pages 54-54
Precise Radii of Light Nuclei from Electron Scattering….Pages 57-77
Nucleon Form Factor Measurements in Mainz: Past and Future….Pages 79-91
Proton Structure Corrections to Hydrogen Hyperfine Splitting….Pages 93-107
Front Matter….Pages 109-109
Precision Laser Spectroscopy of Li+ and Neutral Lithium….Pages 111-129
Halo Nuclei in Laser Light….Pages 131-153
Front Matter….Pages 155-155
Quantum Electrodynamics in Extreme Fields: Precision Spectroscopy of High- Z H-like Systems….Pages 157-163
Pionic Hydrogen….Pages 165-186
Precision Spectroscopy of Antiprotonic Helium Atoms and Ions – Weighing the Antiproton….Pages 187-201
Front Matter….Pages 203-203
Precision Spectroscopy of Molecular Hydrogen Ions: Towards Frequency Metrology of Particle Masses….Pages 205-232
Nuclear Magnetic Dipole Moments from NMR Spectra – Quantum Chemistry and Experiment….Pages 233-260
The Negative Ion of Positronium: Decay Rate Measurements and Prospects for Future Experiments….Pages 261-281
Savely G. Karshenboim: Guide for Atomic and Particle Physicists to CODATA’s Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants….Pages 282-282
Back Matter….Pages 282-286