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Publication in Phys. Lett. B on our latest hydrogen measurements

Beating our previous precision record: Our hydrogen measurement has appeared in Physics Letters B! In this work we test a new method to determine the antihydrogen hyperfine splitting with hydrogen and constrain special types of symmetry breaking.

03.10.2024

 

Our publication "CPT and Lorentz symmetry tests with hydrogen using a novel in-beam hyperfine spectroscopy method applicable to antihydrogen experiments" containing the main results of the PhD thesis of Lilian Nowak has appeared in Physics Letters B.

Please find it online on [Science Direct].
(or on the preprint servers of [CERN] and the [arXiv].)

Abstract:
We present a Rabi-type measurement of two ground-state hydrogen hyperfine transitions performed in two opposite external magnetic field directions. This puts first constraints at the level of 2.3 10-21 GeV on a set of coefficients of the Standard Model Extension, which were not measured by previous experiments. Moreover, we introduce a novel method, applicable to antihydrogen hyperfine spectroscopy in a beam, that determines the zero-field hyperfine transition frequency from the two transitions measured at the same magnetic field. Our value,
ν0 = 1.420 405 751 63(63) GHz, is in agreement with literature at a relative precision of 0.44 ppb. This is the highest precision achieved on hydrogen in a beam, improving over previous results by a factor of 6.

 

Volume 858, November 2024, 139012
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139012