
TY  - JOUR
A1  - J Miller, Ian 
T1  - The Quantisation of the Screening Constant
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 1987
VL  - 40
IS  - 3
SP  - 329
EP  - 346
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PH870329 
N2  - Relationships are given in which the 'screening defect' is expressed in terms of the quantum numbers n and I for both the ground and excited states of neutral atoms for which the electron configuration can be considered as one electron and a core of completed shells. It is further shown that the same functions determine the ground-state energies for any series of neutral atoms with the same outer shell configuration. An explanation is offered in terms of wavefunctions with fewer nodes than the corresponding hydrogen wavefunctions. 
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