An Evaluation of the Frequency Shift Caused by Collisions With Background Gas in the Primary Frequency Standard NPL-CsF2

作者:Szymaniec Krzysztof*; Lea Stephen N; Liu Kun
来源:IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2014, 61(1): 203-206.
DOI:10.1109/TUFFC.2014.2892

摘要

Collisions between cold cesium atoms and background gas atoms at ambient temperature reduce the cold atom signal in a fountain clock and at the same time produce a shift in the measured clock frequency. We evaluate the shift in the NPL-CsF2 cesium fountain primary frequency standard based on measurements of the fractional loss of cold atoms from the atomic cloud during the interrogation time combined with a model by Gibble that quantifies the relationship between the loss and the frequency shift.

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