Abstract
Multi-configuration Hartree-Fock (MCHF) and many-body perturbation (MBFT) atomic structure calculations are now yielding levels of precision that were unthinkable only a decade ago. In addition to their importance to atomic physics, these models allow atomic parity violation experiments to place increasingly tight constraints on various particle theories. Presently, there are no experimental measurements that precisely test the behavior of the predicted atomic wave functions at large values of r. A precise measurement of the Stark shift fills these needs, and also tests the summation techniques used to predict atomic parity violation and various Stark-induced interference processes.
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