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Experimental Verification of the Relativistic Fine-Structure Term of the Klein-Gordon Equation in Pionic Titanium Atoms
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters. 42:89-92
- Publication Year :
- 1979
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 1979.
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Abstract
- A newly designed, large-aperture and high-resolution bent-crystal spectrometer has been used to observe high-intensity sources of pionic x rays. The pionic x-ray source was a target of natural titanium which was placed adjacent to a copper pion-production target in the external beam of the Nevis synchrocyclotron. The energy difference between the 5g ..-->.. 4f and 5f ..-->.. 4d transitions in pionic titanium was measured to be 87.6 +- 1.8 eV. Comparison with the prediction of the Klein-Gordon equation is made.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Nuclear Theory
General Physics and Astronomy
chemistry.chemical_element
Wave equation
Schrödinger equation
Nuclear physics
symbols.namesake
chemistry
Synchrocyclotron
symbols
Vacuum polarization
Perturbation theory
Atomic physics
Nuclear Experiment
Klein–Gordon equation
Beam (structure)
Titanium
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00319007
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7beec1b25d0aa5b0f993a1604e5221da