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POLARIZATION OF SILVER NUCLEI IN FERROMAGNETS AND THE INTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD (thesis)

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4062066
The signs and magnitudes of the hyperfine-structure constants of two silver isotopes dissolved in the ferromagnetic metals iron and nickel were determined. The silver nuclei were polarized by application of a small magnetic field to alloys that had been cooled to about 0.01 deg K. Thermometry was performed by measurement of the polarization of Co/sup 60/ in the alloy. Spatial anisotropies of both beta and gamma rays from Ag/sup 104/ and Ag/sup 110m/ were measured. Parity was shown not to be conserved in the allowed beta decay of these isotopes. Spin assignments were made or confirmed for several excited states in Cd/sup 110/. The M1-E2 mixing ratios were determined for the 1384 and 1504-kev gamma rays following the decay of polarized Ag/sup 110m/. The products of the nuclear magnetic moment of Ag/sup 110m/ and the internal magnetic fields at the nuclei of silver dissolved in iron and nickel were found to be negative and equal to -(9.0 plus or minus 0.5) x 10/sup 5/ nm-gauss for Ag/sup 110m/ in iron and -(3.5 plus or minus 0.3) x 10/sup 5/ nm-gauss in nickel. The role of conductionelectron polarization in the production of internal magnetic fields in ferromagnetic metals is discussed. 56 references. (auth)
Research Organization:
California. Univ., Berkeley. Dept. of Chemistry; and California. Univ., Berkeley. Lawrence Radiation Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
NSA Number:
NSA-18-016954
OSTI ID:
4062066
Report Number(s):
UCRL-11143
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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