RACE: Rubidium Atomic Clock Experiment

8/31/00

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RACE: Rubidium Atomic Clock Experiment

RACE

Microgravity Atomic Clocks

Space Clock Configurations

Microgravity Atomic Clocks

Red Shift & Time Dilation

Kennedy-Thorndike Anisotropy Test

Space-Time Mission

Accuracy and Stability

Cold Collision Shift in Microgravity Clocks

Microgravity Rb vs. Cs

Laser-Cooled mGravity Clocks

Double MOT loading

Local Oscillator

Local Oscillator Requirements

Double Clock Design

RACE Accuracy and Stability

Author: Kurt Gibble 

Email: kgibble@psu.edu

Home Page: http://www.phys.psu.edu/~kgibble/