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Recoil correction to the magnetic moment of a bound electron

Alexander Yelkhovsky

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0108091

Abstract

The effect of a finite nuclear mass on the magnetic moment of the electron bound in the ground state of a hydrogen-like ion is analyzed. Using the exact in Zαexpression for the recoil shift of the energy, I calculate the order (Zα)4 m/M correction to the electron gyromagnetic ratio. The theoretical uncertainty in the prediction for the experimentally interesting carbon ion is decreased to the level of 1.2x10-9. This provides a factor of two improvement in the precision of the atomic mass of the electron.

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