A Festschrift in Honor of Vernon W. Hughes: Yale University, 13 April, 1991

by Zeller, Michael E.

• ISBN13: 9789810207038
• ISBN10: 9810207034
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-03-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface
Early Years of Molecular Beam Resonance	p. 1
Vernon Hughes' Worlds of Atoms	p. 5
On Knowing Things Better and Better Some Thoughts about Precise Physical Measurements	p. 13
Polarized Electrons	p. 28
Fundamental Tests with Polarized Beams at High Energies	p. 45
It Takes One to Know One	p. 65
Muon g-2 and Muonium Hyperfine Structure: Theory Update	p. 81
The CERN Muon (g-2) Experiments: A Brief Survey	p. 101
Vernon Willard Hughes: Congratulations to the Scientist and Teacher of an International Community	p. 124
Vernon Hughes and Japanese Physicists with Spinning Particles	p. 129
Remarks	p. 134
Atomic and Molecular Physics
The Radiofrequency Spectrum of Rb[superscript 85] F and Rb[superscript 87] F by the Electric Resonance Method	p. 143
Two-Quantum Transitions in the Microwave Zeeman Spectrum of Atomic Oxygen	p. 152
Experimental Limit for the Electron-Proton Charge Difference	p. 156
The Electrical Neutrality of Atoms	p. 159
Narrow Linewidths for Decaying States by the Method of Separated Oscillating Fields	p. 166
Upper Limit for the Anisotropy of Inertial Mass from Nuclear Resonance Experiments	p. 172
Atomic Regime in which the Magnetic Interaction Dominates the Coulomb Interaction for Highly Excited States of Hydrogen	p. 175
Parity Nonconservation in Hydrogen Involving Magnetic/Electric Resonance	p. 178
The Fine Structure Constant [alpha]	p. 180
Polarized Electrons from a Polarized Atomic Beam	p. 195
Nuclear Physics
Magnetic Moment and hfs Anomaly for He[superscript 3]	p. 199
New Experimental Limit on T Invariance in Polarized-Neutron [beta] Decay	p. 204
Muonium
Formation of Muonium and Observation of Its Larmor Precession	p. 208
Hyperfine Structure of Muonium	p. 211
Muonium Chemistry	p. 214
Muonium Chemistry II	p. 216
Formation of the Muonic Helium Atom, [actual symbol not reproducible], and Observation of Its Larmor Precession	p. 218
A Very High Intensity Proton Linear Accelerator as a Meson Factory	p. 222
Higher Precision Measurement of the hfs Interval of Muonium and of the Muon Magnetic Moment	p. 229
Formation of Muonium in the 2S State and Observation of the Lamb Shift Transition	p. 233
New Search for the Spontaneous Conversion of Muonium to Antimuonium	p. 237
Particle Physics
Deep Inelastic Scattering of Polarized Electrons by Polarized Protons	p. 241
Parity Non-Conservation in Inelastic Electron Scattering	p. 246
Experimental Test of Special Relativity from a High-[gamma] Electron g-2 Measurement	p. 252
High Energy Physics with Polarized Electrons and Muons	p. 256
Neutrino Experiment to Test the Nature of Muon-Number Conservation	p. 274
The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment	p. 278
Publication List of Vernon W. Hughes	p. 287
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