Low temperature nuclear orientation

Book · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:7035378

Postma, H; Stone, N J

This book surveys the many aspects of the low temperature nuclear orientation method. The angular distribution of radioactive emissions from nuclei oriented by hyperfine interactions in solids, is treated experimentally and theoretically. A general introductory chapter is followed by formal development of the theory of the orientation process and the anisotropic emission of decay products from oriented nuclei, applied to radioactive decay and to reactions. Four chapters on applications to nuclear physics cover experimental studies of alpha, beta and gamma emission, nuclear moment measurement and level structure information. Nuclear orientation studies of parity non-conservation and time reversal asymmetry are fully described. Seven chapters cover aspects of hyperfine interactions, magnetic and electric, in metals, alloys and insulating crystals, including ordered systems. Relaxation phenomena and the combined technique of NMR detection using oriented nuclei are treated at length. Chapters on the major recent development of on-line facilities, giving access to short lived nuclei far from stability, on the use of nuclear orientation for thermometry below 1 Kelvin and on technical aspects of the method complete the main text.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Technology, Delft
• OSTI ID: 7035378
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
360102* -- Metals & Alloys-- Structure & Phase Studies
360104 -- Metals & Alloys-- Physical Properties
ALLOYS
ALPHA PARTICLES
BETA PARTICLES
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
CRYSTALS
DECAY
ELEMENTS
EMISSION
GAMMA SPECTRA
KINETICS
MEASURING METHODS
METALS
NMR SPECTRA
NUCLEAR ALIGNMENT
NUCLEI
ORIENTED NUCLEI
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
PHYSICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATION EFFECTS
REACTION KINETICS
RELAXATION
SPECTRA
STRUCTURAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
THERMAL INSULATION
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
THERMODYNAMICS
THERMOGRAPHY
ULTRALOW TEMPERATURE