id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 3n203x8330d Stephanie Louise Morrison Relativistic Recoil: A Study of Highly Ionized Atoms 2008 .txt text/plain 83 4 45 Recoil corrections, contributions to the energies of atoms and ions that are inversely proportional to the mass of the nucleus, are treated using a three-dimensional form of the Bethe-Salpeter equation for hydrogenic ions. The importance of these calculations for the interpretation of a number of high accuracy experiments on highly charged ions is shown, and directions for future research involving mass-polarization, a many-electron recoil correction, are discussed. cache/3n203x8330d.txt txt/3n203x8330d.txt