Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics - VAN DYCK 1987
Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics

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VAN DYCK 1987

Van Dyck, R.S.; Schwinberg, P.B.; Dehmelt, H.G.;
New High Precision Comparison of Electron and Positron g Factors
Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987) 26;

Abstracts
Single electrons and positrons have been alternately isolated in the same compensated Penning trap in order to form the geonium pseudoatom under nearly identical conditions. For each, the g-factor anomaly is obtained by measurement of both the spin-cyclotron difference frequency and the cyclotron frequency. A search for systematic effects uncovered a small (but common) residual shift due to the cyclotron excitation field. Extrapolation to zero power yields e+ and e- g factors with a smaller statistical error and a new particle-antiparticle comparison: g(e-)/g(e+) = 1 + (0.5 ± 2.1) x 10-12.

Accelerator NONE Detectors PENNING-TRAP

Related references
More (earlier) information appears in
P. B. Schwinberg, R. S. van Dyck, and H. G. Dehmelt, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47 (1981) 1679;
R. S. van Dyck, P. B. Schwinberg, and H. G. Dehmelt, Phys. Rev. D34 (1986) 722;
P. B. Schwinberg, R. S. van Dyck, and H. G. Dehmelt, Phys. Lett. 81A (1981) 119;

Particles studied
  e+ mom
  e mom

Record comments
High precision measurements of electron and positron g-2 factors. High precision test of QED and CPT symmetry.
    
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