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dc.contributorDe Vries, Joel Christopher, 1971--
dc.date2004-03-02T18:26:18Z-
dc.date2004-03-02T18:26:18Z-
dc.date2001-
dc.date2001-
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-09T02:34:01Z-
dc.date.available2013-10-09T02:34:01Z-
dc.date.issued2013-10-09-
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/4108-
dc.identifier.urihttp://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721-
dc.descriptionThe Rydberg frequency, cR[infinity], sets the frequency scale for the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. From a frequency measurement of one transition in hydrogen, cR[infinity] can be extracted and the frequency of any other transition can be predicted, given that the reduced-mass, relativistic, QED, and proton structure corrections can be computed to the desired accuracy. Recent advances in optical frequency techniques applied to transitions involving low-lying states of hydrogen have decreased the uncertainty in cR[infinity], to 7.6 x 10?î ?This thesis presents our measurement of cR[infinity] using millimeter-wave transitions between high-lying "circular Rydberg" states of atomic hydrogen with a principle quantum number, n, between 27 and 30. This measurement provides an independent check, in a different regime, of the optical measurements. Our measurement, cR[infinity] = 3 289 841 960 306(69) kHz with an uncertainty of 2.1 x 10?î ¦?is consistent with the CODATA 98 recommended value.-
dc.descriptionby Joel Christopher De Vries.-
dc.descriptionSupervised by Daniel Kleppner.-
dc.descriptionAlso issued as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, February 2002.-
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 161-163).-
dc.format166 p.-
dc.format9676460 bytes-
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dc.languageeng-
dc.relationTechnical report (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics) ; 658.-
dc.titleA precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency-
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