The nuclear charge radius of ${}^{13}\mathrm{C}$

Abstract

The size is a key property of a nucleus. Accurate nuclear radii are extracted from elastic electron scattering, laser spectroscopy, and muonic atom spectroscopy. The results are not always compatible, as the proton-radius puzzle has shown most dramatically. Beyond helium, precision data from muonic and electronic sources are scarce in the light-mass region. The stable isotopes of carbon are an exception. We present a laser spectroscopic measurement of the root-mean-square (rms) charge radius of ${}^{13}\mathrm{C}$ and compare this with ab initio nuclear structure calculations. Measuring all hyperfine components of the $2{}^3\mathrm{S}\to 2{}^3\mathrm{P}$ fine-structure triplet in ${}^{13}{\mathrm{C}}^{4+}$ ions referenced to a frequency comb allows us to determine its center-of-gravity with accuracy better than $2\mathrm{MHz}$ although second-order hyperfine-structure effects shift individual lines by several $\mathrm{GHz}$. We improved the uncertainty of $R_{\mathrm{c}}{(}^{13}\mathrm{C})$ determined with electrons by a factor of $6$ and found a $3\sigma$ discrepancy with the muonic atom result of similar accuracy.

Published in Nature Communications, 14 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables

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