Remeasurement of the Rydberg constant
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 34 (6) , 5138-5141
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.34.5138
Abstract
We report a remeasurement of the Rydberg constant via a single-photon determination of the Balmer- wavelength. The new value reflects the redefinition of the meter, a reexamination of corrections, and improvements of the experimental apparatus. The result is , where m/s by definition. This result does not significantly disagree with the preceding measurement by Amin et al., significantly disagrees with the measurement by Hildum et al., and agrees very well with a recent measurement by Biraben and Julien.
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