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Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Jun 11;104(23):233001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.233001. Epub 2010 Jun 07.

Precision measurement of the hydrogen-deuterium 1S-2S isotope shift.

Physical review letters

Christian G Parthey, Arthur Matveev, Janis Alnis, Randolf Pohl, Thomas Udem, Ulrich D Jentschura, Nikolai Kolachevsky, Theodor W Hänsch

Affiliations

  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748 Garching, Germany.

PMID: 20867231 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.233001

Abstract

Measuring the hydrogen-deuterium isotope shift via two-photon spectroscopy of the 1S-2S transition, we obtain 670,994,334,606(15) Hz. This is a 10-times improvement over the previous best measurement [A. Huber, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 468 (1998)] confirming its frequency value. A calculation of the difference of the mean square charge radii of deuterium and hydrogen results in d - p =3.82007(65)  fm2, a more than twofold improvement compared to the former value.

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