Measurement of the 2S_{1/2}-8D_{5/2} Transition in Hydrogen
A D Brandt1, S F Cooper1, C Rasor1
1Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
Abstract:
We present a measurement of the hydrogen 2S_{1/2}-8D_{5/2} transition performed with a cryogenic atomic beam. The measured resonance frequency is ν=770649561570.9(2.0) kHz, which corresponds to a relative uncertainty of 2.6×10^{-12}. Combining our result with the most recent measurement of the 1S-2S transition, we find a proton radius of r_{p}=0.8584(51) fm and a Rydberg constant of R_{∞}=10973731.568332(52) m^{-1}. This result has a combined 3.1σ disagreement with the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) 2018 recommended value.
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