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Dielectronic Resonance Method for Measuring Isotope Shifts

R. Schuch, E. Lindroth, S. Madzunkov, M. Fogle, T. Mohamed, Paul Indelicato

physics.atom-pharXiv:physics/0604005

Abstract

Longstanding problems in the comparison of very accurate hyperfine-shift measurements to theory were partly overcome by precise measurements on few-electron highly-charged ions. Still the agreement between theory and experiment is unsatisfactory. In this paper, we present a radically new way of precisely measuring hyperfine shifts, and demonstrate its effectiveness in the case of the hyperfine shift of 4s\1/2 and 4p\1/2 in 207Pb53+. It is based on the precise detection of dielectronic resonances that occur in electron-ion recombination at very low energy. This allows us to determine the hyperfine constant to around 0.6 meV accuracy which is on the order of 10%.

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