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Europhysics News
Volume 50, Number 3, May-June 2019
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| Page(s) | 15 - 19 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2019302 | |
| Published online | 13 August 2019 | |
The Stern-Gerlach experiment re-examined by an experimenter
Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main
The historic Stern-Gerlach experiment (SGE), which was performed in 1922 in Frankfurt, is reviewed from an experimental point of view. It is shown that the SGE apparatus is a purely classical momentum spectrometer, in which the trajectories of particles are measured. With modern detection devices the passage of each single atom can be identified and its trajectory in the magnetic field precisely determined. At the time of their experiment Stern and Gerlach achieved a hitherto unprecedented momentum resolution corresponding to an energy resolution of one μeV.
© European Physical Society, EDP Sciences, 2019
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