Screened Radiative Corrections from Hyperfine-Split Dielectronic Resonances in Lithiumlike Scandium

Abstract

Term energies for dielectronic-recombination Rydberg resonances below 0.07 eV are determined for Sc18+ with absolute accuracies below 0.0002 eV by electron collision spectroscopy in an ion storage ring, using the twin-electron-beam technique and a cryogenic photocathode. The lithiumlike 2s_{1/2}-2p_{3/2} transition energy for Z=21 is determined to 4.6 ppm, less than 1% of the few-body effects on radiative corrections. Features from the hyperfine structure of the 2s state could be resolved in the dielectronic-recombination spectrum.