Article
Weighing the antiproton by parts-per-billion-scale laser spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium
Published on the web 05 September 2011.
Canadian Journal of Physics, 2007, 85:(5) 453-460, 10.1139/p07-013
Abstract
A femtosecond optical frequency comb and continuous-wave pulse-amplified laser were used to measure 12 transition frequencies of antiprotonic helium (metastable three-body system consisting of an antiproton, an electron, and a helium nucleus) to fractional precisions of (9–16) × 10–9. One of these is between two states having microsecond-scale lifetimes hitherto unaccessible to our precision laser spectroscopy method. Comparisons with three-body QED calculations yielded an antiproton-to-electron mass ratio of
= 1836.152 674(5).PACS Nos.: 36.10.–k, 14.20.Dh, 32.70.Jz
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This paper was presented at the International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems, held at University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada on 21–26 July 2008.
Canadian Journal of Physics, 2009, 87:(7) 835-842, 10.1139/P08-111







