Determination of the Antiproton-to-Electron Mass Ratio by Precision Laser Spectroscopy ofp ¯ He +
Author(s) -
M. Hori,
A. Dax,
J. Eades,
K. Gomikawa,
R. Hayano,
N. ONO,
W. Pirkl,
E. Widmann,
H. Torii,
B. Juhász,
D. Barna,
D. Horváth
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.96.243401
Subject(s) - spectroscopy , antiproton , femtosecond , physics , laser , atomic physics , mass ratio , electron , proton , optics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , astrophysics
A femtosecond optical frequency comb and continuous-wave pulse- amplified laser were used to measure 12 transition frequencies of antiprotonic helium to fractional precisions of (9-16) 10/sup -9lifetimes hitherto unaccessible to our precision laser spectroscopy method. Comparisons with three-body QED calculations yielded an antiproton-to-electron mass ratio of M/sub pmacron//m/sub e/=1836.152 674(5)
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