Nordita seminar

The Perfect Atom

by Thomas Klose (Uppsala)

Europe/Stockholm
122:026

122:026

Description
What do atoms in a perfectly supersymmetric world look like? In order to address this question, we derive the spectrum of hydrogen-like atoms in the minimally supersymmetric extension of quantum electrodynamics. It turns out that a difference between these perfect atoms and non-supersymmetric ones is the absence of hyperfine structure. We also comment on the drastic differences for the formation of multi-electron atoms and molecules in a supersymmetric world.