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Type of Document Dissertation Author Morrison, Stephanie Louise URN etd-04202007-122319 Title Relativistic Recoil: A Study of Highly Ionized Atoms Degree Doctor of Philosophy Department Physics Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Jonathan Sapirstein Committee Chair Eugene Livingston Committee Member Ikaros Bigi Committee Member Kathie E. Newman Committee Member Keywords
- relativistic recoil
- highly ionized atoms
- extreme field QED
Date of Defense 2007-03-08 Availability unrestricted Abstract Recoil corrections, contributions to the energies of atoms and ions that are inversely proportional to the mass of the nucleus, are treated using a three-dimensional form of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for hydrogenic ions. All states with principal quantum numbers n=1, 2 and 3 are treated. The importance of these calculations for the interpretation of a number of high accuracy experiments on highly charged ions is shown, and directions for future research involving mass-polarization, a many-electron recoil correction, are discussed.
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