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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 117, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.173201
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- Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) through its Program: Broken Mirrors and Drifting Constants [125]
- Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) through its Projectruimte: Exploring the Boundaries of QED with Helium+ [12PR3098]
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High-precision spectroscopy in systems such as molecular hydrogen and helium ions is very interesting in view of tests of quantum electrodynamics and the proton radius puzzle. However, the required deep ultraviolet and shorter wavelengths pose serious experimental challenges. Here we show Ramsey-comb spectroscopy in the deep ultraviolet for the first time, thereby demonstrating its enabling capabilities for precision spectroscopy at short wavelengths. We excite Kr-84 in an atomic beam on the two-photon 4p(6) -> 4p(5)5p [1/2](0) transition at 212.55 nm. It is shown that the ac-Stark shift is effectively eliminated, and combined with a counterpropagating excitation geometry to suppress Doppler effects, a transition frequency of 2 820 833 101 679( 103) kHz is found. The uncertainty of our measurement is 34 times smaller than the best previous measurement, and only limited by the 27 ns lifetime of the excited state.
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