High-Precision Measurement of the Proton’s Atomic Mass

Abstract:

We report on the precise measurement of the atomic mass of a single proton with a purpose-built Penning-trap system. With a precision of 32 parts per trillion our result not only improves on the current CODATA literature value by a factor of 3, but also disagrees with it at a level of about 3 standard deviations.

F. Heiße, F. Köhler-Langes, S. Rau, J. Hou, S. Junck, A. Kracke, A. Mooser, W. Quint, S. Ulmer, G.Werth, K. Blaum, S. Sturm: High-Precision Measurement of the Proton’s Atomic Mass, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017) 033001

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.033001

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