CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants: 2018

E Tiesinga, PJ Mohr, DB Newell… - Journal of physical and …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report the 2018 self-consistent values of constants and conversion factors of physics and
chemistry recommended by the Committee on Data of the International Science Council …

Frequency comb spectroscopy

N Picqué, TW Hänsch - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
A laser frequency comb is a broad spectrum composed of equidistant narrow lines. Initially
invented for frequency metrology, such combs enable new approaches to spectroscopy over …

Search for new physics with atoms and molecules

MS Safronova, D Budker, D DeMille, DFJ Kimball… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
This article reviews recent developments in tests of fundamental physics using atoms and
molecules, including the subjects of parity violation, searches for permanent electric dipole …

Two-photon frequency comb spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen

A Grinin, A Matveev, DC Yost, L Maisenbacher, V Wirthl… - Science, 2020 - science.org
We have performed two-photon ultraviolet direct frequency comb spectroscopy on the 1S-3S
transition in atomic hydrogen to illuminate the so-called proton radius puzzle and to …

The Rydberg constant and proton size from atomic hydrogen

A Beyer, L Maisenbacher, A Matveev, R Pohl… - Science, 2017 - science.org
At the core of the “proton radius puzzle” is a four–standard deviation discrepancy between
the proton root-mean-square charge radii (rp) determined from the regular hydrogen (H) and …

New Measurement of the Transition Frequency of Hydrogen: Contribution to the Proton Charge Radius Puzzle

H Fleurbaey, S Galtier, S Thomas, M Bonnaud… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present a new measurement of the 1 S-3 S two-photon transition frequency of hydrogen,
realized with a continuous-wave excitation laser at 205 nm on a room-temperature atomic …

Data and analysis for the CODATA 2017 special fundamental constants adjustment

PJ Mohr, DB Newell, BN Taylor, E Tiesinga - Metrologia, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The special least-squares adjustment of the values of the fundamental constants, carried out
by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) in the summer of 2017, is …

The proton size

JP Karr, D Marchand, E Voutier - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The proton charge radius has been measured since the 1950s using elastic electron–proton
scattering and ordinary hydrogen atomic spectroscopy. In 2010, a highly precise …

Precision-spectroscopic determination of the binding energy of a two-body quantum system: The hydrogen atom and the proton-size puzzle

S Scheidegger, F Merkt - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Precision measurements in Rydberg states of H with principal quantum number n in the
range between 20 and 30 are reported. In the presence of homogeneous electric fields with …

Deep-Ultraviolet Frequency Metrology of for Tests of Molecular Quantum Theory

RK Altmann, LS Dreissen, EJ Salumbides, W Ubachs… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Molecular hydrogen and its isotopic and ionic species are benchmark systems for testing
quantum chemical theory. Advances in molecular energy structure calculations enable the …