High-Precision Measurement of the Proton's Atomic Mass

Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Jul 21;119(3):033001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.033001. Epub 2017 Jul 18.

Abstract

We report on the precise measurement of the atomic mass of a single proton with a purpose-built Penning-trap system. With a precision of 32 parts per trillion our result not only improves on the current CODATA literature value by a factor of 3, but also disagrees with it at a level of about 3 standard deviations.