Limitations on the precision of atomic meanlife measurements

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 330-335

  Curtis, L J ^a   Deck, R T ^a   Ellis, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential decay; Lifetime

Indexed keywords

RANDOM ERRORS;

EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; GAUSSIANS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFETIME; PARAMETER EVALUATION; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041597224     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(97)00286-7     Document Type: Article

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