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Determination of the Planck constant using a watt balance with a superconducting magnet system at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Author(s)

Stephan Schlamminger, Darine El Haddad, Frank C. Seifert, Leon S. Chao, David B. Newell, Richard L. Steiner, Jon R. Pratt

Abstract

In the past two years measurements were performed with a watt balance at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to determine the Planck constant. A detailed analysis of these measurements and their uncertainties led to a value of h=6.626 069 88(38) x 10^-34 Js. The relative uncertainty is 57 x 10^-9 . This result is 154 x 10^-9 higher than h90
Citation
Metrologia
Volume
51

Keywords

Planck constant, electronic kilogram

Citation

Schlamminger, S. , El, D. , Seifert, F. , Chao, L. , Newell, D. , Steiner, R. and Pratt, J. (2014), Determination of the Planck constant using a watt balance with a superconducting magnet system at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Metrologia, [online], https://doi.org/10.1088/0026-1394/51/2/S15 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created March 31, 2014, Updated November 10, 2018