What is wrong with the fundamental constants of nature?
Description
Full text: Every decade the CODATA recommended values for the fundamental constants are refined to a selfconsistent set by P. J. Mohr and B. N. Taylor. The 1998 adjustment reduces uncertainties by factors of five or ten and has been published simultaneously as Rev.Mod.Phys. 72 (2000) 351-495 and J.Phys.Chem.Ref.Data (2000). This talk presents a detailed review of many experiments, showing dramatic improvements in experiment and theory since the last 1986 adjustment. However, an anomaly showed up in this last adjustment which may suggest that problems in QED are being observed. This situation will be discussed, and possible explanations will be presented, with a view to identifying future critical experiments to resolve the current inconsistencies
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- 14th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics. Congress abstracts and posters summaries
- Imprint Pagination
- 125 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 17
Conference
- Title
- 14. National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics. Driving technology through discovery, understanding and innovation
- Dates
- 10-15 Dec 2000
- Place
- Adelaide, SA (Australia)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Australia
- Country of Input or Organization
- Australia
- INIS RN
- 32027947
- Subject category
- S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DATA COVARIANCES; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENT PLANNING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
- Descriptors DEC
- DATA; ELECTRODYNAMICS; EVALUATION; FIELD THEORIES; INFORMATION; NUMERICAL DATA; PLANNING; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY