[Jlab-seminars] Physics Seminar: Randolf Pohl; Shrinking the Proton –Laser Spectroscopy for Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Constants

[Stephanie Tysor]

*Physics Seminar*

*Randolf Pohl*


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*Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz Germany*

*Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching Germany*

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/Shrinking the Proton –Laser Spectroscopy for Nuclear Physics and 
Fundamental Constants/

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Abstract:

/For more than a decade, the rms charge radius of the proton was known to be
0.88fm, with about 1% uncertainty [1]. Two methods, elastic electron 
scattering
and precision laser spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen, yielded consistent 
values.

In 2010, our result from laser spectroscopy of the exotic "muonic 
hydrogen" atom
yielded a 4% smaller value, 0.84 fm, with an uncertainty of less than 0.1%
[2,3]. In muonic hydrogen, a negative muon orbits a proton with a 200 times
smaller Bohr orbit than in regular hydrogen, which increases the 
sensitivity of
muonic hydrogen to the proton charge radius by 200^3 ~ 10 million!
Since 2010, the discrepancy increased to more than 7 sigmas [4], making 
it one
of the biggest discrepancies in the Standard Model.

I will discuss the so-called "proton radius puzzle" [5], report on more
measurements in muonic atoms [6], and the result of a new measurement in 
regular
atomic hydrogen./

[1] P.J. Mohr et al. (CODATA 2006), Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 633 (2008 
<callto:80,%20633%20%282008>)
[2] Pohl et al. (CREMA coll.), Nature 466, 213 (2010 
<callto:466,%20213%20%282010>)
[3] Antognini et al.,(CREMA coll.), Science 339, 417 (2013 
<callto:339,%20417%20%282013>)
[4] Olive et al. (PDG 2014), Chin. Phys. C40, 090001 (2014 
<callto:090001%20%282014>)
[5] Pohl et al., Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci 63, 175 (2013 
<callto:63,%20175%20%282013>)
[6] Pohl et al. (CREMA coll.), Science 353, 669 (2016 
<callto:353,%20669%20%282016>)//

*Friday, January 20, 2017*

*11:00 am*

*CEBAF Auditorium//*

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