Hyperfine structure of antiprotonic helium revealed by a laser-microwave-laser resonance method

Abstract

Using a newly developed laser-microwave-laser resonance method, we observed a pair of microwave transitions between hyperfine levels of the $(n,L)=(37,35)$ state of antiprotonic helium. This experiment confirms the quadruplet hyperfine structure due to the interaction of the antiproton orbital angular momentum, the electron spin and the antiproton spin as predicted by Bakalov and Korobov. The measured frequencies of ${\nu }_{\text{H}F}^{+}=12.89596\pm 0.00034$ GHz and ${\nu }_{\text{H}F}^{-}=12.92467\pm 0.00029$ GHz agree with recent theoretical calculations on a level of $6\times 10^{-5}$.

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