New experimental constraints on polarizability corrections to hydrogen hyperfine structure

Nazaryan, Vahagn; Carlson, Carl E.; Griffioen, Keith A.

New experimental constraints on polarizability corrections to hydrogen hyperfine structure

Authors

Nazaryan, Vahagn

Carlson, Carl E.

Griffioen, Keith A.

Description

We present a state-of-the-art evaluation of the polarizability corrections--the inelastic nucleon corrections--to the hydrogen ground-state hyperfine splitting using analytic fits to the most recent data. We find a value $Δ_{\rm pol} = 1.3 \pm 0.3$ ppm. This is 1--2 ppm smaller than the value of $Δ_{\rm pol}$ deduced using hyperfine splitting data and elastic nucleon corrections obtained from modern form factor fits.
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