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De Vries, Joel Christopher, 1971- |
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| dc.date |
2004-03-02T18:26:18Z |
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2004-03-02T18:26:18Z |
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| dc.date |
2001 |
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| dc.date |
2001 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-09T02:34:01Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-09T02:34:01Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-09 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/4108 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721 |
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| dc.description |
The 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. |
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| dc.description |
by Joel Christopher De Vries. |
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| dc.description |
Supervised by Daniel Kleppner. |
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Also issued as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, February 2002. |
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| dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-163). |
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| dc.format |
166 p. |
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9676460 bytes |
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application/pdf |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.relation |
Technical report (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics) ; 658. |
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| dc.title |
A precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency |
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