Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006phrvl..96o1101r&link_type=abstract
Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, Issue 15, id. 151101
Physics
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Scientific paper
Based on highly accurate laboratory measurements of Lyman bands of H2 and an updated representation of the structure of the ground XΣg+1 and excited BΣu+1 and CΠu1 states, a new set of sensitivity coefficients Ki is derived for all lines in the H2 spectrum, representing the dependence of their transition wavelengths on a possible variation of the proton-electron mass ratio μ=mp/me. Included are local perturbation effects between B and C levels and adiabatic corrections. The new wavelengths and Ki factors are used to compare with a recent set of highly accurate H2 spectral lines observed in the Q 0347-383 and Q 0405-443 quasars, yielding a fractional change in the mass ratio of Δμ/μ=(2.4±0.6)×10-5 for a weighted fit and Δμ/μ=(2.0±0.6)×10-5 for an unweighted fit. This result indicates, at a 3.5σ confidence level, that μ could have decreased in the past 12 Gyr.
Buning Ruth
Hollenstein Urs
Ivanchik Alexander
Petitjean Patrick
Reinhold Elmar
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