Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180801 (2007) [4 pages]Hydrogenlike Highly Charged Ions for Tests of the Time Independence of Fundamental ConstantsReceived 18 October 2006; published 30 April 2007 Hyperfine transitions in the electronic ground state of cold, trapped hydrogenlike highly charged ions have attractive features for use as frequency standards because the majority of systematic frequency shifts are smaller by orders of magnitude compared to many microwave and optical frequency standards. Frequency measurements of these transitions hold promise for significantly improved laboratory tests of local position invariance of the electron and quark masses. © 2007 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.180801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.180801
PACS:
06.20.Jr, 06.30.Ft, 31.30.Gs, 32.30.Dx
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