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Phys. Rev. A 70, 022506 (2004) [4 pages]

Three-loop reducible radiative photon contributions to Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting

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Michael I. Eides *
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA and Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg 188300, Russia

Valery A. Shelyuto †
D. I. Mendeleev Institute of Metrology, St. Petersburg 198005, Russia

Received 10 May 2004; published 13 August 2004

Corrections of order α3(Zα)5m to the Lamb shift and corrections of order α3(Zα)EF to the hyperfine splitting, generated by insertion of the three-loop one-particle reducible diagrams with radiative photons in the electron line, are calculated. The calculations are performed in the Yennie gauge.


©2004 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.70.022506
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.022506
PACS: 31.30.Jv, 12.20.Ds, 32.10.Fn, 36.10.Dr

* Email address: eides@pa.uky.edu; eides@thd.pnpi.spb.ru
† Email address: shelyuto@vniim.ru

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