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Hyperfine Structure as a Test of a Linear Wave Equation in the Two-Body Problem
Phys. Rev. 37, 795 – Published 1 April, 1931
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.37.795
Abstract
The proper treatment of the two-body problem is not known. Dirac's relativistic considerations, so successful in the problem of one electron, have been applied by Breit to the two-electron problem. Energy terms appear of which the physical reality is very doubtful. Here a very similar application is made to the problem of a nucleus and an electron, because of the failure of previous treatments of this problem to agree with measurements of hyperfine structure. The doubtful terms do not bring about agreement, so their reality remains improbable. The present state of the theory suggests that the proper interactions have not yet been introduced in the problem of hyperfine structure.
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