{"id":214551,"date":"2025-05-23T05:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/record-precision-achieved-in-measuring-muonic-helium-3-nucleus-radius"},"modified":"2025-05-23T05:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:13:52","slug":"record-precision-achieved-in-measuring-muonic-helium-3-nucleus-radius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/record-precision-achieved-in-measuring-muonic-helium-3-nucleus-radius","title":{"rendered":"Record precision achieved in measuring muonic helium-3 nucleus radius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-precision-achieved-in-measuring-muonic-helium-3-nucleus-radius2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has measured the radius of the nucleus of muonic helium-3 with unprecedented precision. The results are an important stress test for theories and future experiments in atomic physics.<\/p>\n<p>1.97007 femtometer (quadrillionths of a meter): That\u2019s how unimaginably tiny the radius of the atomic nucleus of helium-3 is. This is the result of an experiment at PSI that has now been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adj2610\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>More than 40 researchers from international institutes collaborated to develop and implement a method that enables measurements with unprecedented precision. This sets new standards for theories and further experiments in nuclear and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has measured the radius of the nucleus of muonic helium-3 with unprecedented precision. The results are an important stress test for theories and future experiments in atomic physics. 1.97007 femtometer (quadrillionths of a meter): That\u2019s how unimaginably tiny the radius of the atomic nucleus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}