title: Fine structure and ionization energy of the 1s2s2p 4P state of the helium negative ion He-.
abstract: The fine structure and ionization energy of the 1s2s2p (4)P state of the helium negative ion He(-) are calculated in Hylleraas coordinates, including relativistic and QED corrections up to O(α(4)mc(2)), O((μ/M)α(4)mc(2)), O(α(5)mc(2)), and O((μ/M)α(5)mc(2)). Higher order corrections are estimated for the ionization energy. A comparison is made with other calculations and experiments. We find that the present results for the fine structure splittings agree with experiment very well. However, the calculated ionization energy deviates from the experimental result by about 1 standard deviation. The estimated theoretical uncertainty in the ionization energy is much less than the experimental accuracy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan, People's Republic of China 453007.
authors.forename: Liming
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China 210093.
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3 and State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China 430071.
authors.forename: Zong-Chao
authors.initials: ZC
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4.
authors.forename: G W F
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Drake