Limit on the temporal variation of the fine-structure constant using atomic dysprosium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Cingoz A ^a   Lapierre, A ^a   Nguyen, A T ^b   Leefer, N ^a   Budker, D ^a,c   Lamoreaux, S K ^d   Torgerson, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSPROSIUM; MONITORING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC-DIPOLE TRANSITION; ELECTRONIC ENERGIES; STRUCTURE CONSTANTS;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 33846472380     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.040801     Document Type: Article

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