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The 23P0,1,2 fine structure interval of 4He can be determined to 10-8 accuracy both theoretically and experimentally. It can be used either to determine the fine structure constant or to test the quantum electrodynamics theory. To reach this goal, it is necessary to measure the fine structure splitting to sub kHz accuracy by increasing the signal-to-noise ratio and eliminating the systematic deviations. In the experimental configuration of present study, transverse laser cooling is used to obtain an intense metastable helium atom beam. The triple state metastable atoms are also bent from the original atomic beam to reduce the background noise. The spectral scanning will be accomplished by tuning the sideband of a frequency-locked diode laser to maintain sufficient frequency stability during the scan. The experimental method has been tested on the setup recently built, and the analysis shows that a sub-kHz precision is feasible.
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Keywords:
- helium atom /
- precision spectroscopy /
- fine-structure constant /
- laser cooling
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[1] Hylleraas E A 1929 Z. Phys. 54 347
[2] Kinoshita T 1957 Phys. Rev. 105 1490
[3] Schwartz C 1964 Phys. Rev. 134 A1181
[4] Frankowski K, Pekeris C L 1966 Phys. Rev. 146 46
[5] Goldman S P 1998 Phys. Rev. A 57 R677
[6] Korobov V I 2002 Phys. Rev. A 66 024501
[7] Schwartz C 2006 Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 15 877
[8] Liu Y X, Zhao Z H, Wang Y Q, Chen Y H 2005 Acta Phys. Sin. 54 2620 (in Chinese) [刘玉孝, 赵振华, 王永强, 陈玉红 2005 54 2620]
[9] Drake G W F 1993 Long Range Casimir Forces: Theory and Recent Experiments on Atomic Systems (New York: Plenum Press) p107
[10] Lewis M L, Serafino P H 1978 Phys. Rev. A 18 867
[11] Kponou A, Hughes V W, Johnson C E, Lewis S A, Pichanick F M J 1971 Phys. Rev. Lett. 26 1613
[12] Zhang T, Yan Z C, Drake G W F 1996 Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 1715
[13] Drake G W F 2002 Can. J. Phys. 80 1195
[14] Pachucki K 2006 Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 013002
[15] Pachuchi K, Yerokhin V A 2009 Phys. Rev. A 79 062516
[16] Pachucki K, Yerokhin V A 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 070403
[17] Lamb W E 1957 Phys. Rev. 105 559
[18] Colegrove F D, Franken P A, Lewis R R, Sands R H 1959 Phys. Rev. Lett. 3 420
[19] Pichanick F M J, Swift R D, Johnson C E, Hughes V E. 1968 Phys. Rev. 169 55
[20] Lewis S A, Pichanick F M J, Hughes V W 1970 Phys. Rev. A 2 86
[21] Storry C H, George M C, Hessels E A 2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 3274
[22] George M C, Lombardi L D, Hessel E A 2001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 173002
[23] Borbely J S, George M C, Lombardi L D, Weel M, Fitzakerley D W, Hessels E A 2009 Phys. Rev. A 79 060503
[24] Castillega J, Livingston D, Sanders A, Shiner D 2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 4321
[25] Smiciklas M, Shiner D 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 123001
[26] Giusfredi G, Pastor P C, De Natale P, Mazzotti D, De Mauro C, Fallani L, Hagel G, Krachmalnicoff V, Inguscio M 2005 Can. J. Phys. 83 301
[27] Zelevinsky T, Farkas D, Gabrielse G 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 203001
[28] Hu S M, Lu Z T, Yan Z C 2009 Front. Phys. China 4 165
[29] Petrasso R, Ramsey A T 1972 Phys. Rev. A 5 79
[30] Cheng C F, Jiang W, Yang G M, Sun Y R, Pan H, Gao Y, Liu A W, Hu S M 2010 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81 123106
[31] Cheng C F, Yang G M, Jiang W, Pan H, Sun Y, Liu A W, Cheng G S, Hu S M 2011 Acta Phys. Sin. 60 103701 (in Chinese) [程存峰, 杨国民, 蒋蔚, 潘虎, 孙羽, 刘安雯, 成国胜, 胡水明 2011 60 103701]
[32] Drever R W P, Hall J L, Kowalski F V, Hough J, Ford G M, Munley A J, Ward H 1983 Appl. Phys. B 31 97
[33] Salomon C, Hils D, Hall J L 1988 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 5 1576
[34] Jacobs S F 1986 Opt. Acta 33 1377
[35] Yan Z C, Drake G W F 1994 Phys. Rev. A 50 R1980
[36] Zhao Y Z, Sun H Y, Song F H, Tang L M, Wu W W, Zhang X, Guo H C 2008 Acta Phys. Sin. 57 2284 (in Chinese) [赵延仲, 孙华燕, 宋丰华, 唐黎明, 吴伟伟, 张 曦, 郭惠超 2008 57 2284]
[37] Snyder J J 1975 Appl. Opt. 14 1825
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