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A Preliminary Measurement of the Fine Structure Constant Based on Atom Interferometry

by: Andreas Wicht, Joel M. Hensley, Edina Sarajlic, Steven Chu
Physica Scripta (25 July 2006), 82, doi:10.1238/physica.topical.102a00082  Key: citeulike:10783670

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Using an atom interferometer method, we measure the recoil velocity of a cesium atom due to the coherent scattering of a photon. This measurement is used to obtain a value of /M Cs and the fine structure constant, α. The current fractional uncertainty is Δα/α = 7.4 × 10 -9 .


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