Nuclear electromagnetic moments. β-NMR and its applications

✍ Scribed by Koichiro Asahi; Kensaku Matsuta

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 175 KB
• Volume: 693
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(01)00361-x

✦ Synopsis

Studies of magnetic moments and electric quadrupole moments for light unstable nuclei, which have been opened up by the recent development of spin-polarized radioactive nuclear beams and the β-ray detected nuclear magnetic resonance technique, are reviewed. The results lead to several intriguing findings concerning structures and interactions in unstable nuclei far from the stability line, such as a proton-halo structure in proton-rich nuclei, displacement of the single particle levels and quenching of the neutron effective charge in neutron-rich nuclei, and an anomalously large spin expectation value in a T = 3/2 mirror pair. Applications of the present techniques to the study of hyperfine interactions of radioactive atoms introduced in solids are also discussed.