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The hydrogen atom continues to hold fascinating challenges for spectroscopists. As the simplest of the stable atoms it has long permitted unique confrontations between basic theory and experiment. Very large further improvements in spectral resolution and accuracy appear feasible with the help of emerging new methods for stabilizing and measuring optical frequencies, together with advanced laser techniques for preparing, slowing, and manipulating atoms. Such prospects make more accurate quantum electrodynamic computations of hydrogen levels highly desirable. If theory is correct, measurements and comparisons of transition frequencies in hydrogen will yield precise new values of fundamental constants, in particular the Rydberg constant, the electron mass, and the charge radius of the proton. It would be much more exciting, of course, if we found out that theory fails at some level of scrutiny.
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Hänsch, T.W. (1989). High Resolution Spectroscopy of Hydrogen. In: Bassani, G.F., Inguscio, M., Hänsch, T.W. (eds) The Hydrogen Atom. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88421-4_9
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