SI base unit of time (symbol:

). The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding
to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the
ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
Source:
PAC, 1996, 68, 957
(Glossary of terms in quantities and units in Clinical Chemistry (IUPAC-IFCC Recommendations
1996))
on page 991