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The three loop slope of the Dirac form factor and the 1S Lamb shift in hydrogen

Kirill Melnikov, Timo van Ritbergen

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9911277

Abstract

The last unknown contribution to hydrogen energy levels at order m alpha 7, due to the slope of the Dirac form factor at three loops, is evaluated in a closed analytical form. The resulting shift of the hydrogen nS energy level is found to be 3.016/n3 kHz. Using the QED calculations of the 1S Lamb shift, we extract a precise value of the proton charge radius rp=0.883 0.014 fm.

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