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arxiv: hep-ph/0108091 · v2 · submitted 2001-08-09 · ✦ hep-ph

Recoil correction to the magnetic moment of a bound electron

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keywords electronalphaboundcorrectionmagneticmassmomentrecoil
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The effect of a finite nuclear mass on the magnetic moment of the electron bound in the ground state of a hydrogen-like ion is analyzed. Using the exact in Z\alpha expression for the recoil shift of the energy, I calculate the order (Z\alpha)^4 m/M correction to the electron gyromagnetic ratio. The theoretical uncertainty in the prediction for the experimentally interesting carbon ion is decreased to the level of 1.2x10^-9. This provides a factor of two improvement in the precision of the atomic mass of the electron.

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