The Hydrogen Atom: Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems

by Karshenboim, Savely G.; Pavone, F. S.; Bassani, F.; Inguscio, M.; Hansch, T. W.

• ISBN13: 9783540419358
• ISBN10: 3540419357
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

For more than a century, studies of atomic hydrogen have been a rich source of scientific discoveries. These began with the Balmer series in 1885 and the early quantum theories of the atom, and later included the development of QED and the first successful gauge field theory. Today, hydrogen and its relatives continue to provide new fundamental information, as witnessed by the contributions to this book. The printed volume contains invited reviews on the spectroscopy of hydrogen, muonium, positronium, few-electron ions and exotic atoms, together with related topics such as frequency metrology and the determination of fundamental constants. The accompanying CD contains, in addition to these reviews, a further 40 contributed papers also presented at the conference "Hydrogen Atom 2" held in summer 2000. Finally, to facilitate a historical comparison, the CD also contains the proceedings of the first "Hydrogen Atom" conference of 1988. The book includes a foreword by Norman F. Ramsey.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Simple Atoms	1	(16)
Savely G. Karshenboim
Francesco S. Pavone
Part I Hydrogen and Helium
Precision Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen	17	(25)
F. Biraben
T.W. Hansch
M. Fischer
M. Niering
R. Holzwarth
J. Reichert
Th. Udem
M. Weitz
B. de Beauvoir
C. Schwob
L. Jozefowski
L. Hilico
F. Nez
L. Julien
O. Acef
J.-J. Zondy
A. Clairon
Ultracold Hydrogen	42	(15)
Lorenz Willmann
Daniel Kleppner
Review of High Precision Theory and Experiment for Helium	57	(24)
Gordon W. F. Drake
Part II Positronium and Muonium
Spectroscopy of the Muonium Atom	81	(22)
Klaus-Peter Jungmann
Experimental Tests of QED in Positronium: Recent Advances	103	(22)
Ralph S. Conti
Richard S. Vallery
David W. Gidley
Jason J. Engbrecht
Mark Skalsey
Paul W. Zitzewitz
Part III Fundamental Constants and Frequency Metrology
A New Type of Frequency Chain and Its Application to Fundamental Frequency Metrology	125	(20)
Thomas Udem
Jorg Reichert
Ronald Holzwarth
Scott Diddams
David Jones
Jun Ye
Steven Cundiff
Theodor Hansch
John Hall
Fundamental Constants and the Hydrogen Atom	145	(12)
Peter J. Mohr
Barry N. Taylor
Present Status of g - 2 of Electron and Muon	157	(22)
Toichiro Kinoshita
Part IV Few-Electron Highly-Charged Ions
Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Like and Helium-Like Ions	179	(25)
Edmund G. Myers
The g Factor of Hydrogenic Ions: A Test of Bound State QED	204	(19)
G. Werth
H. Haffner
N. Hermanspahn
H.-J. Kluge
W. Quint
J. Verdu
Part V Exotic Atoms
Elementary Relativistic Atoms	223	(23)
Leonid Nemenov
Antiprotonic Helium - An Exotic Hydrogenic Atom	246	(20)
Toshimitsu Yamazaki
Appendix: Abstracts of Contributed Papers	266	(19)
S. G. Karshenboim
F. S. Pavone
Subject Index	285	(5)
Author Index	290