Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Hyperfine-structure measurements in the ground state of radioactive {sup 150}Eu{sup +} ions

Journal Article · · Physical Review A
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;  [1]
  1. Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Mainz, 55099 Mainz (Germany)
The hyperfine constants {ital A} and {ital B} for magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole interaction in the {sup 9}{ital S}{sub 4} ground state of unstable {sup 150}Eu{sup +} ions have been determined with high precision in an optical microwave double-resonance experiment. The ions were produced by nuclear reactions at the ISOLDE facility at CERN, collected on a foil, reevaporated, and stored in a Paul ion trap. Three of eight possible hyperfine transitions between different {ital F} sublevels have been observed with well resolved Zeeman substructure in a residual magnetic field. Analysis of the transition frequencies and extensive second-order hyperfine correction yield values of {ital A}=559 010 325(40) Hz, {ital B}={minus}926.2(3.0) kHz. A preliminary value for the nuclear quadrupole moment {ital Q} ({sup 150}Eu{sup +})=1.264(23) b has also been obtained.
OSTI ID:
147818
Journal Information:
Physical Review A, Journal Name: Physical Review A Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 52; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Ground-state hyperfine-structure measurements of unstable Eu{sup +} isotopes in a Paul ion trap
Journal Article · Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997 · Physical Review A · OSTI ID:531768

Hyperfine-structure measurements of the [sup 151,153]Eu[sup +] ground state
Journal Article · Sun Oct 31 23:00:00 EST 1993 · Physical Review A; (United States) · OSTI ID:5968375

Observation of the hyperfine structure of the {sup 2}S{sub 1/2}-{sup 2}D{sub 5/2} transition in {sup 87}Sr{sup +}
Journal Article · Tue Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2002 · Physical Review. A · OSTI ID:20634135