Methanol as a sensitive probe for spatial and temporal variations of the proton-to-electron mass ratio

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Jansen, Paul ^a   Xu, Li Hong ^b   Kleiner, Isabelle ^c   Ubachs, Wim ^a   Bethlem, Hendrick L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MASS; INTERNAL ROTATIONS; ISOTOPOLOGUES; SENSITIVE PROBE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION;

METHANOL; PROBES; PROTONS; ROTATION;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952603011     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.100801     Document Type: Article

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