Measurement of Hyperfine Structure and the Zemach Radius in ^{6}Li^{+} Using Optical Ramsey Technique

We investigate the 2^{3}S_{1}-2^{3}P_{J} (J=0, 1, 2) transitions in ^{6}Li^{+} using the optical Ramsey technique and achieve the most precise values of the hyperfine splittings of the 2^{3}S_{1} and 2^{3}P_{J} states, with smallest uncertainty of about 10 kHz. The present results reduce the uncertainties of previous experiments by a factor of 5 for the 2^{3}S_{1} state and a factor of 50 for the 2^{3}P_{J} states, and are in better agreement with theoretical values. Combining our measured hyperfine intervals of the 2^{3}S_{1} state with the latest quantum electrodynamic (QED) calculations, the improved Zemach radius of the ^{6}Li nucleus is determined to be 2.44(2) fm, with the uncertainty entirely due to the uncalculated QED effects of order mα^{7}. The result is in sharp disagreement with the value 3.71(16) fm determined from simple models of the nuclear charge and magnetization distribution. We call for a more definitive nuclear physics value of the ^{6}Li Zemach radius.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:131

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Physical review letters - 131(2023), 10 vom: 08. Sept., Seite 103002

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Englisch

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Sun, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Pei-Pei [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Peng-Peng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shao-Long [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Zhi-Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yao [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Xiao-Qiu [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Zong-Chao [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Ting-Yun [VerfasserIn]
Drake, G W F [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Zhen-Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Guan, Hua [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Ke-Lin [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 22.09.2023

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Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.103002

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NLM362358834