Investigation of PbO as a system for measuring the electric dipole moment of the electron

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 525071-525078

  DeMille, D ^a   Bay, F ^a   Bickman, S ^b   Kawall, D ^a   Krause Jr , D ^b   Maxwell, S E ^b   Hunter, L R ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

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