Atomic measurements add weight to recent work suggesting that the proton is significantly smaller than previously thought.
In 2010, researchers studied muonic hydrogen (in which the electron is replaced with a muon, a bigger particle that is also negatively charged), which allowed them to measure the nuclear radius much more accurately…
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Atomic physics: Proton-size puzzle deepens
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