Vacuum-polarization corrections to the parity-nonconserving 6s-7s transition amplitude in (133)Cs.

The dominant one-loop radiative corrections to atomic wave functions, those associated with vacuum polarization in the nuclear Coulomb field, are evaluated for the 6s-7s parity-nonconserving transition amplitude in (133)Cs. These corrections increase the size of this amplitude by 0.4% and, correspondingly, increase the difference between the experimental value of the weak charge Q(W)((133)Cs) and the value predicted by the standard model.