Higher precision measurements show proton mass less than thought

Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 07:32 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has developed a new way to measure the mass of a proton and found the particle to be approximately 30 billionths of a percent less than previously thought. The group has written a paper describing their process and results and have uploaded it to the prepress server arXiv.

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