Search for variations of fundamental constants using atomic fountain clocks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Marion, H ^a   Pereira Dos Santos, F ^a   Abgrall, M ^a   Zhang, S ^a   Sortais, Y ^a   Bize, S ^a   Maksimovic, I ^a   Calonico, D ^a   Grunert J ^a   Mandache, C ^a,c   Lemonde, P ^a   Santarelli, G ^a   Laurent, Ph ^a   Clairon, A ^a   Salomon, C ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GROUND STATE; LIGHT VELOCITY; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

ATOMIC FOUNTAIN CLOCKS; COLD COLLISION; MAGNETO-OPTICAL TRAP; OPTICAL FREQUENCY METROLOGY; RAMSEY INTERROGATION; RYDBERG CONSTANT; SCHMIDT MODEL;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0037526574     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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