• R. Soria Orts
  • J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia
  • H. Bruhns
  • A. J. González Martínez
  • Z. Harman
  • U. D. Jentschura
  • C. H. Keitel
  • A. Lapierre
  • H. Tawara
  • I. I. Tupitsyn
  • J. Ullrich
  • A. V. Volotka

The Zeeman line components of the magnetic-dipole (M1) 1 s2 2 s2 2p P 1/2 2 - P 3/2 2 transition in boronlike Ar13+ were experimentally resolved by high-precision emission spectroscopy using the Heidelberg electron beam ion trap. We determined the gyromagnetic (g) factors of the ground and first-excited levels to be g1/2 =0.663(7) and g3/2 =1.333(2), respectively. This corresponds to a measurement of the g factor of a relativistic electron in a bound non- S state of a multielectron ion with a 1.5 parts-per-thousand accuracy. The results are compared to theoretical calculations by means of the configuration interaction Dirac-Fock-Sturmian method including electron correlation effects and additional quantum electrodynamic corrections. Our measurements show that the classical Landé g factor formula is sufficiently accurate to the present level of accuracy in few-electron ions of medium nuclear charge number Z.

Original languageEnglish
Article number052501
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume76
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Nov 2007

    Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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