Measurement of the charged pion mass using X-ray spectroscopy of exotic atoms

The 5g−4f transitions in pionic nitrogen and muonic oxygen were measured simultaneously by using a gaseous nitrogen–oxygen mixture at 1.4 bar. Due to the precise knowledge of the muon mass the muonic line provides the energy calibration for the pionic transition. A value of (139.57077 ± 0.00018) MeV...

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Main Authors: M. Trassinelli, D.F. Anagnostopoulos, G. Borchert, A. Dax, J.-P. Egger, D. Gotta, M. Hennebach, P. Indelicato, Y.-W. Liu, B. Manil, N. Nelms, L.M. Simons, A. Wells
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-08-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316302787