Search for variation of fundamental constants and violations of fundamental symmetries using isotope comparisons

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2011-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/1109.1893v1

Phys. Rev. A 84, 042510 (2011)

Physics

Atomic Physics

7 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.84.042510

Atomic microwave clocks based on hyperfine transitions, such as the caesium standard, tick with a frequency that is proportional to the magnetic moment of the nucleus. This magnetic moment varies strongly between isotopes of the same atom, while all atomic electron parameters remain the same. Therefore the comparison of two microwave clocks based on different isotopes of the same atom can be used to constrain variation of fundamental constants. In this paper we calculate the neutron and proton contributions to the nuclear magnetic moments, as well as their sensitivity to any potential quark mass variation, in a number of isotopes of experimental interest including 201,199Hg and 87,85Rb, where experiments are underway. We also include a brief treatment of the dependence of the hyperfine transitions to variation in nuclear radius, which in turn is proportional to any change in quark mass. Our calculations of expectation-values of proton and neutron spin in nuclei are also needed to interpret measurements of violations of fundamental symmetries.

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