Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure physics

P Campbell, ID Moore, MR Pearson - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
High-resolution laser spectroscopy is an established powerful tool in the study of nuclear
shape, size and multipole moments. Measurements of the hyperfine structures and isotope …

Muonic hydrogen and the proton radius puzzle

R Pohl, R Gilman, GA Miller… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The extremely precise extraction of the proton radius obtained by Pohl et al. from the
measured energy difference between the 2 P and 2 S states of muonic hydrogen disagrees …

Theory of the 2S–2P Lamb shift and 2S hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen

A Antognini, F Kottmann, F Biraben, P Indelicato, F Nez… - Annals of Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
The 7σ discrepancy between the proton rms charge radius from muonic hydrogen and the
CODATA-2010 value from hydrogen spectroscopy and electron-scattering has caused …

Testing fundamental interactions on the helium atom

K Pachucki, V Patkóš, VA Yerokhin - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We critically examine the current status of theoretical calculations of the energies, the fine
structure, and the isotope shift of the lowest-lying states of helium, searching for unresolved …

Colloquium: Laser probing of neutron-rich nuclei in light atoms

ZT Lu, P Mueller, GWF Drake, W Nörtershäuser… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013 - APS
The neutron-rich He 6 and He 8 isotopes exhibit an exotic nuclear structure that consists of a
tightly bound He 4-like core with additional neutrons orbiting at a relatively large distance …

Measurement of the Frequency of the Transition of

X Zheng, YR Sun, JJ Chen, W Jiang, K Pachucki… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The 2 S 3–2 P 3 transition of He 4 was measured by comb-linked laser spectroscopy using a
transverse-cooled atomic beam. The centroid frequency was determined to be 276 736 495 …

Probing new spin-independent interactions through precision spectroscopy in atoms with few electrons

C Delaunay, C Frugiuele, E Fuchs, Y Soreq - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
The very high precision of current measurements and theory predictions of spectral lines in
few-electron atoms allows us to efficiently probe the existence of exotic forces between …

Laboratory tests of Lorentz and symmetry with muons

AH Gomes, VA Kostelecký, AJ Vargas - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
The prospects are explored for testing Lorentz and CPT symmetry in the muon sector via the
spectroscopy of muonium and various muonic atoms, and via measurements of the …

Frequency Metrology of Helium around 1083 nm and Determination of the<? format?> Nuclear Charge Radius

P Cancio Pastor, L Consolino, G Giusfredi… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We measure the absolute frequency of seven out of the nine allowed transitions between the
2 S 3 and 2 P 3 hyperfine manifolds in a metastable He 3 beam by using an optical …

Deuteron charge radius and Rydberg constant from spectroscopy data in atomic deuterium

R Pohl, F Nez, T Udem, A Antognini, A Beyer… - Metrologia, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We give a pedagogical description of the method to extract the charge radii and Rydberg
constant from laser spectroscopy in regular hydrogen (H) and deuterium (D) atoms, that is …