Highly Accurate H2 Lyman and Werner Band Laboratory Measurements and an Improved Constraint on a Cosmological Variation of the Proton-to-Eiectron Mass Ratio

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Ubachs, W ^a   Reinhold, E ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BAND STRUCTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GROUND STATE; LASERS; MOLECULAR BEAMS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PHOTOIONIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BAND TRANSITIONS; COSMOLOGICAL EXPANSION MODEL; GROUND-STATE ROTATIONAL SPLITTINGS; QUASISTELLAR OBJECTS;

HYDROGEN;

EID: 2142655021     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.101302     Document Type: Article

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