The new watt balance experiment at metas

20th IMEKO World Congress 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 418-422

  Baumann, H ^a   Eichenberger, A ^a   Jeckelmann, B ^a   Beguin, Ch ^b   Clavel, R ^c   Cosandier, F ^c   Reber, D ^b   Tommasini, D ^d  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

^b METTLER TOLEDO ^*  (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Kilogram; Planck constant h; System of units; Watt balance

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; INTERNATIONAL PROTOTYPE; INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM; KILOGRAM; LONG TERM STABILITY; PLANCK CONSTANTS; SYSTEM OF UNITS; WATT BALANCE;

METRIC SYSTEM;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84878872729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

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