New determination of the fine structure constant and test of the quantum electrodynamics

Rym Bouchendira, Pierre Cladé, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa +2

We report a new measurement of the ratio $h/m_{\mathrm{Rb}}$ between the Planck constant and the mass of ${}^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ atom. A new value of the fine structure constant is dedu…