Sensitivity of hyperfine structure to nuclear radius and quark mass variation

To search for the temporal variation in the fundamental constants, one needs to know dependence of atomic transition frequencies on these constants. We study the dependence of the hyperfine structure of atomic s levels on nuclear radius and, via radius, on quark masses. An analytical formula has been derived and tested by the numerical relativistic Hartree-Fock calculations for Rb, Cd+, Cs, Yb+, and Hg+. The results of this work allow the use of the results of past and future atomic clock experiments and quasar spectra measurements to put constraints on time variation in the quark masses.