1. Two-photon laser spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium and the antiproton-electron mass ratio
- Author
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B. Juhász, S. Friedreich, Nicola Zurlo, L. Venturelli, Dezso Horvath, Andreas Dax, Eberhard Widmann, T. Pask, D. Barna, Anna Sótér, Masaki Hori, and Ryugo S. Hayano
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Nuclear physics ,Physics ,Proton ,Antiproton ,Electron rest mass ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,Electron ,Mass ratio ,Atomic physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Spectroscopy ,Antiprotonic helium ,Atomic mass - Abstract
We report our latest results from our two-photon spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium (a bound state of a helium nucleus, an electron and an antiproton). By measuring three transition frequencies with a precision of 2.3−5×10−9 and comparing these to 3-body QED calculations, we derived the antiproton-electron mass ratio 1,836.1526736(23),which agrees with the proton-electron mass ratio (known to a three-times better precision) within the errors. Since the (anti)proton's atomic mass is known to a better precision than that of the electron, assuming mp = mp this result can be used to determine the electron's atomic mass as me=0.0005485799091(7) u.
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- 2013