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STABILITY OF THE PROTON-TO-ELECTRON MASS RATIO TESTED WITH MOLECULES USING AN OPTICAL LINK TO PRIMARY CLOCK

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814282345_0008Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
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    Abstract:

    We report a limit on the fractional temporal variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio as , obtained by comparing the frequency of a rovibrational transition in SF6 with the fundamental hyperfine transition in Cs. This result is direct and model-free. As far as we know, it is the most precise absolute frequency measurement of a molecular transition. It was performed using an optical link to transfer the primary standard frequency controlled with a Cs fountain from LNE-SYRTE to LPL. Last developments on that optical link show a resolution of a few 10-16 at 1 s integration time and around 10-19 at 1 day. This resolution is preserved when a non-dedicated fiber is used. In that case, the metrological signal is transferred together with the digital data signal from the Internet traffic using two different frequency channels in a dense wavelength division multiplexing scheme.