Indication of a cosmological variation of the proton-electron mass ratio based on laboratory measurement and reanalysis of H2 spectra

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Reinhold, E ^a   Buning, R ^a   Hollenstein, U ^a,b   Ivanchik, A ^c   Petitjean, P ^d,e   Ubachs, W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC CORRECTIONS; MASS RATIO; QUASARS;

ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROTONS;

BAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 33645822533     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.151101     Document Type: Article

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