Jones, M. P. A. and Potvliege, R. M. and Spannowsky, M. (2020) 'Probing new physics using Rydberg states of atomic hydrogen.', Physical review research., 2 (1). 013244.
Abstract
We consider the role of high-lying Rydberg states of simple atomic systems such as 1H in setting constraints on physics beyond the standard model. We obtain highly accurate bound states energies for a hydrogen atom in the presence of an additional force carrier (the energy levels of the Hellmann potential). These results show that varying the size and shape of the Rydberg state by varying the quantum numbers provides a way to probe the range of new forces. By combining these results with the current state-of-the-art QED corrections, we determine a robust global constraint on new physics that includes all current spectroscopic data in hydrogen. Lastly, we show that improved measurements that fully exploit modern cooling and trapping methods as well as higher lying states could lead to a strong, statistically robust global constraint on new physics based on laboratory measurements only.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (895Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013244 |
| Publisher statement: | Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. |
| Date accepted: | 04 February 2020 |
| Date deposited: | 05 March 2020 |
| Date of first online publication: | 03 March 2020 |
| Date first made open access: | 05 March 2020 |
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