Abstract:
Electric dipole transition amplitudes of certain low-lying states of Pb+ have been calculated using the relativistic coupled-cluster theory and compared with previous calculations. The role of electron correlation is found to be important. Some of the results we have obtained would be useful in estimating the size of the parity non-conserving amplitude for the 6p/sup2P/sub1/2 → 6p/sup2P/sub3/2 transition.