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https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.43.5853
Copy DOIJournal: Physical Review A | Publication Date: Jun 1, 1991 |
Citations: 114 | License type: other-oa |
We consider the contribution of nuclear polarization to the Lamb shift of K- and L-shell electrons in heavy atoms and quasiatoms. Our formal approach is based on the concept of effective photon propagators with nuclear-polarization insertions treating effects of nuclear polarization on the same footing as usual QED radiative corrections. We explicitly derive the modification of the photon propagator for various collective nuclear excitations and calculate the corresponding effective self-energy shift perturbatively. The energy shift of the 1${\mathit{s}}_{1/2}$ state in $_{92}^{238}\mathrm{U}$ due to virtual excitation of nuclear rotational states is shown to be a considerable correction for atomic high-precision experiments. In contrast to this, nuclear-polarization effects are of minor importance for Lamb-shift studies in $_{82}^{208}\mathrm{Pb}$.
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