High-Precision Measurement of the Proton's Atomic Mass
Abstract
We report on the precise measurement of the atomic mass of a single proton with a purpose-built Penning-trap system. With a precision of 32 parts per trillion our result not only improves on the current CODATA literature value by a factor of 3, but also disagrees with it at a level of about 3 standard deviations.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- July 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.033001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1706.06780
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhRvL.119c3001H
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Atomic Physics
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.033001