Precision calculations of the hyperfine structure in highly charged ions

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FKK 2010, St. Petersburg, 10. 12.10 Precision calculations of the hyperfine structure in highly charged ions Andrey V. Volotka , Dmitry A. Glazov, Vladimir M. Shabaev, Ilya I. Tupitsyn, and Günter Plunien

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Precision calculations of the hyperfine structure in highly charged ions. Andrey V. Volotka , Dmitry A. Glazov,. Vladimir M. Shabaev, Ilya I. Tupitsyn, and Günter Plunien. Introduction and Motivation. # Heavy few-electron ions provides possibility to test of QED - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Precision calculations of the hyperfine structure in highly charged ions

Andrey V. Volotka, Dmitry A. Glazov,

Vladimir M. Shabaev, Ilya I. Tupitsyn, and Günter Plunien

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Introduction and Motivation

# Heavy few-electron ions provides possibility to test of QED at extremely strong electric fields

Interelectronic interaction ~ 1 / Z

QED ~ α

=> high-precision calculations are possible!

However, in contrast to light atoms,the parameter αZ is not small

=> test of QED to all orders in αZ

In U92+: αZ ≈ 0.7

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Introduction and Motivation

# Investigations of the hyperfine structure and g factor in heavy ions provide

high-precision test of the magnetic sector of bound-state QEDin the nonperturbative regime(hyperfine splitting and g factor of H-, Li-, and B-like heavy ions)

Fundamental physics

independent determination of the fine structure constantfrom QED at strong fields(g factor of H- and B-like heavy ions)

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eV)8(0840.5exp E

# Measurements of the ground-state hyperfine splitting in H-like ions

Klaft et al., PRL 1994209Bi82+

eV)6(1646.2exp E

Crespo López-Urrutia et al., PRL 1996; PRA 1998

165Ho66+

eV)18(7190.2exp E185Re74+

eV)18(7450.2exp E187Re74+

eV)2(2159.1exp E

Seelig et al., PRL 1998207Pb81+

eV)25(21351.3exp E

Beiersdorfer et al., PRA 2001203Tl80+

eV)29(24409.3exp E205Tl80+

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

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# Basic expression for the hyperfine splitting

3p

3

3)(

1

1

)12)(1(

12)(

Mmlj

I

m

g

n

ZE

aa

I

a

a

)( ZA – relativistic factor δ – nuclear charge distribution correctionε – nuclear magnetization distribution correction

ZZB /)( – interelectronic-interaction correction of first-order in 1/Z2/),( ZZZC – 1/Z2 and higher-order interelectronic-interaction correction

SQEDx – screened QED correction

QEDx – one-electron QED correction

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

)( ZA )1( )1( QEDx ZZB /)( 2/),( ZZZC SQEDx

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Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

# Ground-state hyperfine splitting in H-like ions

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Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

# Ground-state hyperfine splitting in Li-like ions

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# Bohr-Weisskopf correction

)(),(~ rKrKε LS

,

)()(

)()(

)(

0

0

rdrfrg

rdrfrg

rK

r

S

0

03

3

)()(

)()(1

)(

rdrfrg

rdrfrgrr

rK

r

L

Bohr-Weisskopf correction depends linearly on the functions KS(r) and KL(r)

[Shabaev et al., PRA 1998]

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

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)()(

)(

)(

)()1(

)2(

)1(

)2(

)1(

)2(

Zfε

ε

rK

rK

rK

rKs

s

sL

sL

sS

sS

0)(nucl

rf

rgrVεmσ

r

κσ

dr

diσ zxy

For a given κ the radial Dirac equations are the same in the nuclear region

[Shabaev et al., PRL 2001]

)(2

)(nuclnucl

nucl2

2

RVR

Z

n

aa

# Bohr-Weisskopf correction

=> the ratio of the Bohr-Weisskopf corrections is very stable with respect to variations of the nuclear models

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

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)1()2( ξ ss EEE

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

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# Vacuum-polarization correction

[Sunnergren, Persson, Salomonson, Schneider, Lindgren, and Soff, PRA 1998]

[Schneider, Greiner, and Soff, PRA 1994]

[Artemyev, Shabaev, Plunien, Soff, and Yerokhin, PRA 2001]

[Sapirstein and Cheng, PRA 2001]

Second-order terms in perturbation theory expansion

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

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# Self-energy correction

[Persson, Schneider, Greiner, Soff, and Lindgren, PRL 1996]

[Shabaev, Tomaselli, Kühl, Artemyev, and Yerokhin, PRA 1997]

[Blundell, Cheng, and Sapirstein, PRA 1997]

Second-order terms in perturbation theory expansion

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

[Yerokhin and Shabaev, PRA 2001]

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Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

# Screened QED correction: effective potential approach

)()()()( scrnucleffnucl rVrVrVrV

[Glazov, Volotka, Shabaev, Tupitsyn, and Plunien, PLA 2006]

[Volotka, Glazov, Tupitsyn, Oreshkina, Plunien, and Shabaev, PRA 2008]

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Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

# Screened self-energy correction: effective potential approach

rdr

rρrV c

0

scr

)()(

Different screening potential have been employed

core-Hartree potential

Kohn-Sham potential

– density of the core electrons)(rρc

3/1

20

scr )(32

81

3

2)()(

rrρr

rdr

rρrV t

t

– total electron density)(rρt

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# Screened vacuum-polarization correction

Third-order terms in perturbation theory expansion

32 diagrams

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

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# Screened self-energy correction

Third-order terms in perturbation theory expansion

36 diagrams

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

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# Screened self-energy correction Derivation of the formal expressions Regularizations of the divergences Ultraviolet divergences: diagrams (A), (B), (C), (E), and (F) Infrared divergences: diagrams (C), (D), and (F)

Calculation Angular integrations Evaluation of regularized zero- and one-potential terms in momentum-space Contour rotation: identification of the poles structure Integration over the electron coordinates and the virtual photon energy

Verification Angular integrations: analytical and numerical 2 different contours for the integration over the virtual photon energy Different gauges: Feynman and Coulomb Comparison with results obtained within screening potential approx.

Hyperfine structure in heavy ions

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Numerical results

# Screened self-energy correction xSQED(SE) in the Feynman and Coulomb gauges for the Li-like 209Bi80+

Feynman CoulombA, irr 0. 001544 0. 001555B, irr - 0. 000380 - 0. 000398C, irr 0. 001928 0. 001952D, irr - 0. 000936 - 0. 000945E, irr 0. 000028 0. 000028F, irr - 0. 000174 - 0. 000172G, red - 0. 001298 - 0. 001307H, red 0. 000331 0. 000331I, red 0. 000066 0. 000066

Total 0. 001109 0. 001109

Kohn-Sham screening 0. 0012core-Hartree screening 0. 0013

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Numerical results

# Specific difference between hyperfine splitting in H- and Li-like bismuth in meV

ξΔE (1s ) ΔE (2s ) Δ'EDirac value 876. 638 844. 829 - 31. 809QED - 5. 088 - 5. 052 0. 036Screened QED 0. 194( 6) 0. 194( 6) local potential approx. 0. 21( 4) 0. 21( 4)Interel. 1/Z - 29. 995 - 29. 995Interel. higher orders 0. 25( 4) 0. 25( 4)

Theory: - 61. 32( 4)

;ξ )1()2( ss EEE for Z=83 we obtain ξ=0.16886

=> possibility for a test of screened QED on the level of few percent

Remaining uncertainty ≈ 0.005 – 0.010 meV

[Volotka, Glazov, Shabaev, Tupitsyn, and Plunien, PRL 2009][Glazov, Volotka, Shabaev, Tupitsyn, and Plunien, PRA 2010]

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Numerical results

# Bohr-Weisskopf corrections for H-, Li-, and B-like bismuth

)5(0148.0)1(

NS

)1(exp

)1(QED

)1(NS)1(

s

ssss

E

EEEε

)3(0782.1)1(

)2(

s

s

ε

ε

The ratio of the Bohr-Weisskopf corrections

Knowing 1s hyperfine splitting from experiment, the Bohr-Weisskopf correction can be obtained

)2(295.0)1(

)2(

s

p

ε

ε

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ΔE(2s) ΔE(2p) Dirac value (point nucl.) 958. 5 296. 35Nuclear size - 113. 7( 7) - 9. 84( 5)Bohr-Weisskopf - 13. 1( 7) - 1. 11( 5)Interelectronic interaction - 29. 7 - 27. 31( 22)QED - 4. 8 - 0. 25( 2)

Total theory: 797. 22( 15) 257. 83( 22)

Exp.: 820( 26) * 791( 5) **

Numerical results

# Hyperfine splitting in Li- and B-like bismuth in meV

*Beiersdorfer et al., PRL 1998

**Beiersdorfer et al., unpublished

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# Two-photon exchange correction

Outlook

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Summary

# Conclusion

the most accurate theoretical prediction for the specific differencebetween hyperfine structure values in H- and Li-like Bi has been obtained

rigorous evaluation of the complete gauge-invariant set of the screenedQED corrections has been performed