https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2018-80457-8
Regular Article
On the vacuum-polarization Uehling potential for a Fermi charge distribution
CEA, DAM, DIF,
91297
Arpajon, France
a e-mail: jean-christophe.pain@cea.fr
Received:
7
July
2017
Received in final form:
10
November
2017
Published online: 10
April
2018
We present analytical formulas for the vacuum-polarization Uehling potential in the case where the finite size of the nucleus is modeled by a Fermi charge distribution. Using a Sommerfeld-type development, the potential is expressed in terms of multiple derivatives of a particular integral. The latter and its derivatives can be evaluated exactly in terms of Bickley-Naylor functions, whose connection to the Uehling potential was already pointed out in the pure Coulomb case, and of usual Bessel functions of the second kind. The cusp and asymptotic expressions for the Uehling potential with a Fermi charge distribution are also provided. Analytical results for the higher-order-contribution Källén-Sabry potential are given.
Key words: Atomic Physics
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