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There exists a number of methods of utilizing the hyperfine splitting. These methods have their benefits and draw-backs and have influenced the development of commercial devices and laboratory standards. By tradition the hardware which is used to probe the atoms is called the physics package.
 
[[File:HP 5061A Cesium Beam Frequency Standard.JPG|thumb|right|One of the actual Hewlett Packard HP5061A cesium beam atomic clock units used in the Hafele–Keating "flying clock" experiment in 19651971 to prove relativity theory.]]
 
===Atomic beam standard===