Thursday, February 2, 2012

1201.3038 (J. DiSciacca et al.)

Direct Measurement of the Proton Magnetic Moment    [PDF]

J. DiSciacca, G. Gabrielse
The proton magnetic moment in nuclear magnetons is measured to be
$\mu_p/\mu_N \equiv g/2 = 2.792\,846 \pm 0.000\,007$, a 2.5 ppm (parts per
million) uncertainty. The direct determination, using a single proton in a
Penning trap, demonstrates the first method that should work as well with an
antiproton as with a proton. This opens the way to measuring the antiproton
magnetic moment (whose uncertainty has essentially not been reduced for 20
years) at least $10^3$ times more precisely.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3038

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