Office Address:

Department of Physics

Florida State University

315 Keen Building

Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350

Phone: (850) 644-4040

Fax: (850) 644-9848

E-mail: emyers@fsu.edu

Education:

BS: University of Oxford, Merton College, 1978

PhD: University of Oxford, 1982

Employment History:

1982-85: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, NJ

1983-86: Research Visitor, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

1986-2014: Staff Physicist, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University

2014-present: Research Professor, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University

Awards:

2005 Fellow of the American Physical Society

2005 NIST Precision Measurement Award

2010 University Distinguished Scholar

Personal Data:

Born: Jan, 24, 1958

Family: Married to Lisa J. Morée

Research Interests:

Experimental atomic physics, precision measurement and determination of fundamental constants, high-precision atomic mass measurement using Penning ion traps, lasers and optics, ion sources and accelerators.

Selected Publications:

“Mass difference of tritium and helium-3”, M. Medina-Restrepo and E. G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. (in Press, Nov 2023).

 

“Deuteron-to-proton mass ratio from simultaneous measurement of the cyclotron frequencies of H₂⁺ and D⁺”, D. J. Fink and E. G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243001 (2021).

 

“Deuteron-to-proton mass ratio from the cyclotron frequency ratio of H₂⁺ and D⁺ with H₂⁺ in a resolved vibrational state”, D. J. Fink and E. G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 013001 (2020).

 

"CPT tests with the antihydrogen molecular ion", E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. A 98, 010101(R)(2018).

 

"Rotational energy as mass in H₃⁺ and lower limits on the atomic masses of D and ³He", J.A. Smith, S. Hamzeloui, D.J. Fink, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143002 (2018).

 

"Precision mass ratio of ³He⁺ to HD⁺", S. Hamzeloui, J.A. Smith, D.J. Fink, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. A 96, 060501(R) (2017).

 

"Atomic masses of tritium and helium-3", E.G. Myers, A. Wagner, H. Kracke, and B.A. Wesson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013003 (2015).

 

"Slow atoms make progress on the fine structure constant", E.G. Myers, Ann. Phys. (Berlin) 525, A138 (2013).

 

"The most precise atomic mass measurements in Penning traps", E.G. Myers, Int. J. Mass Spectrometry, 349-350, 107 (2013).

 

"Atomic masses of strontium and ytterbium", R. Rana, M. Hoecker, and E. G. Myers, Phys. Rev. A 86, 0505026(R)(2012).

 

"Dipole moments of HCO⁺ and NH⁺ from cyclotron frequency polarizability shifts", B.J. Mount, M. Redshaw, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. A 85, 012519 (2012).

 

"Not your usual NMR", E.G. Myers, Physics 4, 49 (2011).

 

"Atomic masses of ⁶Li, ²³Na, ^39,41K, ^85,87Rb, and ¹³³Cs", B.J. Mount, M. Redshaw, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. A 82, 042513 (2010).

 

"Mass of ¹⁷O from Penning trap mass spectrometry and molecular spectroscopy: A precision test of the Dunham-Watson model in carbon monoxide", B.J. Mount, H.S.P. Mueller, M. Redshaw, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. A 81, 064501 (2010).

 

"Double-beta-decay Q-values of ⁷⁴Se and ⁷⁶Ge", B.J. Mount, M. Redshaw and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. C 81, 032501(R) (2010).

 

"Q-value of ¹¹⁵In → ¹¹⁵Sn(3/2+): The lowest known energy beta-decay", B.J. Mount, M. Redshaw, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 122502 (2009).

 

"Masses of ¹³⁰Te and ¹³⁰Xe and double-beta-decay Q value of ¹³⁰Te", M. Redshaw, B.J. Mount, E.G. Myers, and F.T. Avignone, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 212502 (2009).

 

"Improved measurement of the 1s2s ¹S₀ - 1s2p ³P₁ interval in heliumlike silicon", T.R. DeVore, D.N. Crosby, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243001 (2008).

 

"Mass and double-beta decay Q-value of ¹³⁶Xe", M. Redshaw, E. Wingfield, J. McDaniel, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053003 (2007).