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Progress on Vacuum-to-Air Mass Calibration System Using Magnetic Suspension to Disseminate the Planck-constant Realized Kilogram

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Eric C. Benck, Corey A. Stambaugh, Edward C. Mulhern, Patrick J. Abbott, Zeina J. Kubarych

Abstract

The kilogram is the unit of mass in the International System of units (SI) and has been defined as the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) since 1889. In the future, a new definition of the kilogram will be based on precise measurements of the Planck constant. The new definition will occur in a vacuum environment by necessity, so the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a mass calibration system in which a kilogram artifact in air can be directly compared with a kilogram realized in a vacuum environment. This apparatus uses magnetic suspension to couple the kilogram in air to a high precision mass balance in vacuum.
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ACTA IMEKO
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.21014/acta_imeko.v6i2.406

Keywords

Magnetic suspension, mass metrology, Planck constant, revised SI, SI units, watt balance
Metrology

Citation

Benck, E. , Stambaugh, C. , Mulhern, E. , Abbott, P. and Kubarych, Z. (2017), Progress on Vacuum-to-Air Mass Calibration System Using Magnetic Suspension to Disseminate the Planck-constant Realized Kilogram, ACTA IMEKO, [online], https://doi.org/10.21014/acta_imeko.v6i2.406 (Accessed December 3, 2024)

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Created July 31, 2017, Updated November 10, 2018