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Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Sep 29;97(13):133001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.133001. Epub 2006 Sep 25.

Isotope shift of the 32S 1/2 -22S 1/2 transition in lithium and the nuclear polarizability.

Physical review letters

M Puchalski, A M Moro, K Pachucki

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, Hoza 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland.

PMID: 17026029 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.133001

Abstract

High precision calculation of the isotope shift of the 3(2)S(1/2)-2(2)S(1/2) transition in lithium is presented. The wave function and matrix elements of relativistic operators are obtained by using recursion relations. Apart from the relativistic contribution, we obtain the nuclear polarizability correction for 11Li. The resulting difference of the squared charge radii 11Li-7Li based on the measurements of Sánchez et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033002 (2006)10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.033002] is deltar(ch)(2)=0.157(81) fm(2), which significantly differs from the previous evaluation.

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