Nuclear Mass Dependence of the Dirac–Breit–Pauli Hamiltonian

Abstract

The nuclear mass dependent (relativistic, specific, and normal) corrections for many electron atoms are discussed. Numerical values, determined from Hartree–Fock functions for all the neutral atoms from helium through nobelium, show that the relativistic mass correction, never included in actual calculations, is of the same order of magnitude as the specific mass effect.