• I. Arapoglou
  • A. Egl
  • M. Höcker
  • T. Sailer
  • B. Tu
  • A. Weigel
  • R. Wolf
  • H. Cakir
  • V. A. Yerokhin
  • N. S. Oreshkina
  • V. A. Agababaev
  • A. V. Volotka
  • D. V. Zinenko
  • D. A. Glazov
  • Z. Harman
  • C. H. Keitel
  • S. Sturm
  • K. Blaum

We have measured the ground-state g factor of boronlike argon Ar4013+ with a fractional uncertainty of 1.4×10-9 with a single ion in the newly developed Alphatrap double Penning-trap setup. The value of g=0.663 648 455 32(93) obtained here is in agreement with our theoretical prediction of 0.663 648 12(58). The latter is obtained accounting for quantum electrodynamics, electron correlation, and nuclear effects within the state-of-the-art theoretical methods. Our experimental result distinguishes between existing predictions that are in disagreement, and lays the foundations for an independent determination of the fine-structure constant.

Original languageEnglish
Article number253001
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume122
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jun 2019

    Research areas

  • ELECTRON

    Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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