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We report a series of measurements of the effect of an electric field on the frequency of the ultranarrow linewidth $^7F_0 \rightarrow$ $^5D_0$ optical transition of $\rm Eu^{3+}$ ions in an $\rm Y_2SiO_5$ matrix at cryogenic temperatures.…

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We demonstrate theoretically the existence of a linear dc Stark shift of the individual substates of an alkali atom in its ground state, dressed by a circularly polarized laser field. It arises from the electroweak nuclear anapole moment…

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The study of redshifted spectral lines can provide a measure of the fundamental constants over large look-back times. Current grand unified theories predict an evolution in these constants and astronomical observations offer the only…

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High accuracy measurements in M\"ossbauer transitions open up the possibility to use them in the search for temporal and spatial variation of the fine-structure constant $\alpha$, quark mass $m_q$, and dark matter field which may lead to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Pavel Fadeev , Julian C. Berengut , Victor V. Flambaum

Recently we reported a high precision optical frequency measurement of the (v,L):(0,2)->(8,3) vibrational overtone transition in trapped deuterated molecular hydrogen (HD+) ions at 10 mK temperature. Achieving a resolution of 0.85…

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We use optical-optical double-resonance (OODR) spectroscopy to measure for the first time hot-band transitions of ethylene (C${_2}$H${_4}$) between states in the 3000 cm$^{-1}$ and 9000 cm$^{-1}$ energy ranges. A 3.2 ${\mu}$m continuous…

We have remeasured the absolute $1S$-$2S$ transition frequency $\nu_{\rm {H}}$ in atomic hydrogen. A comparison with the result of the previous measurement performed in 1999 sets a limit of $(-29\pm 57)$ Hz for the drift of $\nu_{\rm {H}}$…

We have performed saturated absorption spectroscopy on the cesium D$_{2}$ line in 3 T and 7 T magnetic fields. By means of sideband spectroscopy on the extreme angular momentum states we have measured the linear magnetic frequency shift of…

We report a precise measurement of the hyperfine interval in the ${2P}_{1/2}$ state of $^{7}$Li. The transition from the ground state ($D_1$ line) is accessed using a diode laser and the technique of saturated-absorption spectroscopy in hot…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alok K. Singh , Lal Muanzuala , Vasant Natarajan

State-resolved laser spectroscopy at the 10$^{-12}$ precision level recently reported in $arXiv$:2406.18719 determined the fractional change in nuclear quadrupole moment between the ground and isomeric state of $^{229}\rm{Th}$, $\Delta…

We report on the observation of magnetic dipole allowed transitions in the well-characterized $A\,^2\Sigma^+ - X\,^2\Pi$ band system of the OH radical. A Stark decelerator in combination with microwave Rabi spectroscopy is used to control…

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We present a method to precisly measure the frequencies of transitions to high-$n$ Rydberg states of the hydrogen atom which are not subject to uncontrolled systematic shifts caused by stray electric fields. The method consists in recording…

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Absorption spectroscopy toward high-redshift quasars provides strong constraints on the putative variation of fundamental constants of physics on cosmological time scales. The submillimeter ground-state transitions of methylidyne (CH) and…

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Sensitivity coefficients to temporal variation of the fine-structure constant alpha for transitions between the fine-structure (FS) sub-levels of the ground states of C I, Si I, S I, Ti I, Fe I, N II, Fe II, O III, S III, Ar III, Fe III, Mg…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 M. G. Kozlov , S. G. Porsev , S. A. Levshakov , D. Reimers , P. Molaro

Peik and Tamm [Europhys. Lett. 61, 181 (2003)] proposed a nuclear clock based on the isomeric transition between the ground state and the first excited state of thorium-229. This transition was recognized as a potentially sensitive probe of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Pavel Fadeev , Julian C. Berengut , Victor V. Flambaum

Precision measurements of transitions between singlet ($S=0$) Rydberg states of H$_2$ belonging to series converging on the $\mathrm{X}^+\,^2\Sigma_g^+(v^+=0,N^+=0)$ state of H$_2^+$ have been carried out by millimetre-wave spectroscopy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Nicolas Hölsch , Ioana Doran , Maximilian Beyer , Frédéric Merkt

We describe a new technique to measure variations in the fundamental parameters $\alpha$ and $y \equiv m_e/m_p$, using the sum of the frequencies of cm-wave OH ``main'' lines. The technique is $\sim$ three orders of magnitude more sensitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nissim Kanekar , Jayaram N Chengalur

We report high-precision measurements on the thallium fluoride $\tilde{J} = 1$ hyperfine manifold of the $B^3\Pi_1$ ($\nu = 0$) state. This state is of special interest because it is central to an optical cycling scheme that is envisioned…