Ultracold molecules: New probes on the variation of fundamental constants

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chin, Cheng ^a   Flambaum, V V ^b,c   Kozlov, M G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY LEVEL; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; FESHBACH RESONANCES; FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANTS; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; MASS RATIO; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; RESONANT SCATTERING; ULTRACOLD MOLECULES;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULES; PROBES;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67549118604     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/5/055048     Document Type: Article

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