Nuclear-spin-dependent recoil correction to the Lamb shift

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, , Citation K Pachucki and S G Karshenboim 1995 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 28 L221 DOI 10.1088/0953-4075/28/7/004

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Abstract

A new recoil correction to the Lamb shift of order ( mu 3/M2)(Z alpha )4 has been found. This correction depends on the nuclear spin, and is associated with the absence of a zitterbewegung term in the Breit Hamiltonian for spin 0 and 1 nuclei.

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