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How accurately can we measure the hydrogen 2S->1S transition rate from the cosmological data?

Abstract

Recent progress in observational cosmology, and especially the forthcoming PLANCK mission data, open new directions in so-called precision cosmology. In this paper we illustrate this statement considering the accuracy of cosmological determination of the two-quanta decay rate of 2s hydrogen atom state. We show that the PLANCK data will allow us to measure this decay rate significantly better than in the laboratory experiments.Comment: v2: matched with the version accepted in JCAP (minor changes

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