[time-nuts] Cesium vs H Maser clocks

iovane at inwind.it iovane at inwind.it
Sat Nov 29 13:22:38 UTC 2008


> In order for cesium beam standards to even work, one must apply
> a slight magnetic field, the so-called C-field, which rather strongly
> distorts the shape of the resonance peak. 

Tom (and all),

do you think that a Cs clock, having a not-well-adjusted 
C field, might have a shape of the resonant peak distorted 
such that the clock might show metastability?

Antonio I8IOV







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