• A. Lapierre
  • U. D. Jentschura
  • J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia
  • J. Braun
  • G. Brenner
  • H. Bruhns
  • D. Fischer
  • A. J. González Martínez
  • Z. Harman
  • W. R. Johnson
  • C. H. Keitel
  • V. Mironov
  • C. J. Osborne
  • G. Sikler
  • R. Soria Orts
  • V. Shabaev
  • H. Tawara
  • I. I. Tupitsyn
  • J. Ullrich
  • A. Volotka

The lifetime of the Ar13+ 1s22s22pP3/2o2 metastable level was determined at the Heidelberg Electron Beam Ion Trap to be 9.573(4)(5)ms(stat)(syst). The accuracy level of one per thousand makes this measurement sensitive to quantum electrodynamic effects like the electron anomalous magnetic moment (EAMM) and to relativistic electron-electron correlation effects like the frequency-dependent Breit interaction. Theoretical predictions, adjusted for the EAMM, cluster about a lifetime that is approximately 3σ shorter than our experimental result.

Original languageEnglish
Article number183001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume95
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Oct 2005

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