Investigation of the hyperfine structure of Ta I lines (V)

We report on further investigations of the hyperfine structure of spectral lines of the neutral tantalum atom. Besides determination of the hyperfine constants A and B of 21 levels we report on the discovery of 9 up to now unknown fine structure levels for which we could determine their energy position, parity, angular momentum and the constants A and B. For a large number of up to now unclassified lines the combinations could be identified. Received 27 June 2000 and Received in final form 23 August 2000     

Further experimental investigation of the hyperfine structure in the spectrum of atomic niobium

Laser spectroscopy with either optogalvanic or laser induced fluorescence detection have been employed to measure the hyperfine structure of 25 transitions of atomic niobium in the visible and near infrared spectral range. The magnetic dipole hyperfine interaction constants A of 43 energy levels (22 of even and 21 of odd parity) were determined, 30 of which have been investigated for the first time. The values obtained for the even parity levels are compared with the results of a parametric analysis.     

利用三能级光谱技术研究^235U的高激发态,超精细结构

本文报道用两台连续激光级联共振的方法,测量了(255)~U的→16900→33625cm~(-1)跃迁的超精细光谱结构,给出了33625cm~(-1)能级的超精细结构常数A、B,从而给出一种测量难熔、有毒金属高激发态能级结构的简单且精确的方法.     

High resolution measurements of the hyperfine structure of atomic Lanthanum for energetically low lying levels of odd parity

Doppler-reduced saturation absorption spectroscopy is applied to study the hyperfine structure of excited levels of Lanthanum. 16 transitions in the near infrared wavelength range are investigated. Precise values for the magnetic dipole hyperfine structure constants A as well as for the electric quadrupole hyperfine structure constants B of the isotope ¹³⁹La are determined for 14 levels of odd parity and nine levels of even parity. For levels of even parity a good agreement is found with values from previous measurements using sub-Doppler methods. For levels of odd parity previously determined values are improved and for two levels new values of the hyperfine structure constants are reported.     

Theory of the hyperfine structure of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">S</Emphasis> states of muonic tritium

The hyperfine structure of the energy spectrum of the S levels of muonic tritium has been calculated using the quasi-potential method in quantum electrodynamics (QED). The α⁵- and α⁶-order effects on the polarization of vacuum, the structure and recoil of the nucleus, and relativistic corrections have been taken into account. The obtained numerical values of hyperfine splittings of 239.819 meV (1S state) and 29.965 meV (2S state) can be treated as reliable estimates for comparing with future experimental data of the CREMA collaboration, and hyperfine structure interval Δ₁₂ = 8ΔE ^hfs (2S)–ΔE ^hfs (1S) =–0.100 meV can be used for verifying the QED predictions. The resultant precision values of hyperfine splitting are also important for calculating the rates of formation of (μ dt) mesomolecules in muonic catalysis reactions.     

Theory of origin of hyperfine interactions in atomic systems

We shall review recent developments in the theory of magnetic hyperfine interactions, including the influence of many-body and relativistic effects and the finite spreads of nuclear charge and magnetic moment distributions. The present status of the understanding of these effects will be illustrated by analyzing a number of different systems including the alkali atoms, alkaline earth ions and several half-filled shell atomic and ionic systems.     

On the hyperfine spectral lines of an atomic copper vapor laser

The hyperfine structure of energy levels of copper atom and its transition probabilities were considered. The resonance and metastable levels of the copper atom are split into hyperfine structures, due to the magnetic dipole moment and the electric quadrupole moment. In this paper, a succinct introduction to the relevant theory of the hyperfine spectral structure and experimental observations of elemental copper vapor laser is presented.     

The importance of nucleon substructure in nuclear ground states

Using a potential model, constrained by the hadron spectrum, for the confinement of relativistic quarks we explore the consequences of the substructure of nucleons for the binding energy and ground state wavefunction of ⁴He. In its simplest form, this model gives a binding energy of 19 MeV. Quark wavefunctions differ from those associated with free nucleons by less than 10%, the rms quark radius is 1.34 fm and the resulting structure differs considerably from that of an expansion beginning from the (0s)⁴ shell model. Considerable contributions to the binding energy, attractive from quark delocalization and repulsive from the quark hyperfine interaction, appear unavoidable. We conclude that these effects cannot be excluded from a detailed understanding of the properties of nuclear ground states.     

Effects of pressure on magnetic properties of F-centers in rubidium halides

Room temperature magnetic resonance measurements have been made on additively colored RbCl and RbBr and on X-irradiated RbH at pressures up to 8 kbar. In RbCl and RbH pressure shifts of the F-center isotropic coupling constant a₁ were obtained from changes in the resolved EPR hyperfine structure. Pressure shifts of first and second shell hyperfine coupling constants of F-centers in RbBr were found from high pressure ENDOR spectra. Effects of the pressure induced polymorphic phase transformations in RbCl and RbBr are discussed. No evidence was found for a structure transformation in RbH. Room pressure ENDOR measurements on additively colored RbI were made at 77°K. The first and second shell hyperfine coupling constants are reported. All results accord well with the behavior of F-centers in other alkali halides.     

Investigation of the hyperfine structure of Ta I lines (VI)

We have classified about 200 new lines and have discovered 13 energy levels with even parity and 1 level with odd parity by means of the systematic hyperfine structure investigation of a large number of spectral lines of the neutral tantalum atom. For the new levels we deduced their angular momenta, parity and magnetic hyperfine interaction constants A as well as the electric quadrupole interaction constants B. Received 8 August 2001     

ZnO:V3+晶体光谱和电子顺磁共振谱的理论研究

采用强场耦合图像,建立了3d2电子组态在三角对称中的45×45能量矩阵,通过对角化完全能量矩阵的方法,计算出了ZnO:V3 晶体的45条光谱能级和5个电子顺磁共振谱参量(零场分裂D,g因子g//,g⊥和超精细结构常数A//,A⊥),计算结果与实验数值能很好地符合.计算中还发现V3 杂质中心的局部结构与基质晶体的结构不一致,即V3 在ZnO中并不占据准确的Zn2 位置,而是沿c3轴方向位移一段距离△Z≈0.003 nm.作者对上述这些结果的合理性进行了讨论.     

Investigation of the hyperfine structure of electronic levels in chromium atom

Measurements of the hyperfine structure (hfs) of electronic levels of the chromium atom were performed using two spectroscopic methods. For 7 energy levels (3 even parity and 4 odd parity) the magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole hyperfine interaction constants A and B were determined for the first time. In this case the method of laser induced fluorescence (LIF) on an atomic beam was used. The low lying metastable levels belonging to the term 3d⁴4s² a⁵D were remeasured by the method of laser-rf double resonance on an atomic beam (ABMR-LIRF). To improve the accuracy of hyperfine splittings measurements, the stability of the radio frequnecy (rf) generator was increased by the use of a frequency standard synchronized by a GPS signal. The values of the hfs intervals for these levels were determined with the accuracy of a few kHz. The improvement in accuracy enabled an estimation of the octupole-coupling constant C.     

Hyperfine structure of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">S</Emphasis> levels of the muonic helium ion

Corrections of the α⁵ and α⁶ orders to the energy spectrum of the hyperfine splitting of the 1S and 2S levels of the muonic helium ion are calculated with the inclusion of the electron vacuum polarization effects, nuclear-structure corrections, and recoil effects. The values ΔE ^hfs(1S) = ?1334.56 meV and ΔE ^hfs(2S) = ?166.62 meV obtained for hyperfine splitting values can be considered as reliable estimates for comparison with experimental data. The hyperfine structure interval Δ₁₂ = 8ΔE ^hfs(2S) ? ΔE ^hfs(1S) = 1.64 meV can be used to verify QED predictions.     

Thallium hyperfine anomaly

Measurements of the hyperfine structure in the highly charged hydrogen like systems ²⁰³Tl⁸⁰⁺ and ²⁰⁵Tl⁸⁰⁺ are underway at the Super EBIT at LLNL. This work considers the effects of the nuclear magnetization distribution on the hyperfine structure. The difference in energy splitting due to hyperfine structure for ²⁰³Tl and ²⁰⁵Tl, respectively, is found to be 0.031 04(1) eV, which corresponds to a transition wavelength difference of 3.640(1) nm. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Hyperfine anomaly measurements in francium isotopes and the radial distribution of neutrons

We have performed precision measurements in a magneto-optical trap of the 7P_1/2 hyperfine structure of the isotopes ^209-210Fr. The ratio of these hyperfine constants to the previously measured 7S_1/2 ground state values reveals a significant hyperfine anomaly. This anomaly results from the different radial dependence of the electron density in the two atomic levels. The measurements are sensitive to changes in the radial distribution of the neutron magnetism. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Single particle models in the shell correction approach

We investigate the dependence of the shell correction energy on the parameters as they occur in the Nilsson model and the single particle model with a Woods-Saxon potential. We give criteria, how these parameters should be chosen in order that the shell correction energies become fairly model-independent. The different models yield now a value of about ?20 MeV for²⁰⁸Pb, substantially larger than in previous work. Its relation to the remainder of the mass formula fit is discussed. We find that shell energies have an extremum. The minimum occurs close to the conventional parameter values (except the potential diffuseness of the protons) and close to the minimum of the total binding energy. The minimum in shell energy corresponds to a maximum bunching of single particle states. The gross properties of these extremal shells agree considerably better with the experimental spectra (for both the neutrons and the protons) than those of conventional model parameters.     

Precise measurement of hyperfine structure in the 52P1/2 state of Rb

We have measured hyperfine structure in the 5 ²P_1/2 state of Rb using a frequency-stabilized diode laser, which is locked to one hyperfine transition, and an acousto-optic modulator, whose frequency is locked to the interval of interest. We check for optical-pumping errors by repeating the measurement at different values of pump power in the saturated-absorption spectrometer. We obtain precise values of the hyperfine constant: A=120.645(5) MHz for ⁸⁵Rb and A=406.119(7) MHz for ⁸⁷Rb. The values resolve a large discrepancy between two earlier high-accuracy measurements on this state.     

Hyperfine-induced singlet-triplet mixing in 3He

We report complete determination of the hyperfine structure of 2 ³P and 3 ³D states of ³He in which significant singlet- triplet mixing is observed. This mixing arises from the hyperfine interaction of the 1s open shell electron. The interaction is essentially independent of the outer electron; thus unlike the case of one electron-like spectra, the hyperfine interaction is crucial to the electronic structure of highly excited states. Our results allow accurate predictions of the structure of these states.     

Electronic structure and hyperfine interaction of muonium in semi-conductors

The Unrestricted Hartree-Fock self-consistent field cluster procedure is being utilized for first-principle investigations of the electronic structures and hyperfine interactions in normal and anomalous muonium states in semi-conductors. Our results for the total energy for the normal muonium state for a twenty-seven atom cluster in diamond, including the muonium and its neighboring atoms, show a minimum at the tetrahedral site and a maximum at the hexagonal site indicating that normal muonium is located in the tetrahedral region and avoids the hexagonal region. Using the calculated spin-density as a function of the position of muonium and carrying out averaging over the vibrational motion of the muon governed by the total energy curve obtained from our work, we have derived a muon hyperfine constant which is about 75% of that in free muonium, in good agreement with experiment. The natures of the total energy and spindensity curves permit us to draw conclusions regarding the origin of the observed trend in the hyperfine constants for normal muonium in diamond, silicon and germanium. The UHF cluster procedure is also applied to study a model of a muon in a positively charged environment for the anomalous muonium center in diamond. This model leads to a hyperfine interaction tensor with the observed feature of strong anisotropy but significantly weaker than experiment. The results obtained for this model indicate the importance for the anomalous muonium state with its relatively weak hyperfine interaction, of exchange polarization effects inherent in the UHF procedure.     

矩阵对角化方法研究~(40)Ca~(35)Cl分子的超精细结构

采用矩阵对角化方法计算了~(40)Ca~(35)Cl分子的超精细结构能级,借助有效哈密顿算符获得了~(40)Ca~(35)Cl分子基态超精细能级的本征值.计算结果表明,得到的跃迁光谱数据与实验值符合的很好,误差仅在0 k Hz～90 k Hz,并好于之前的理论计算值.希望这些数据能为以后激光冷却~(40)Ca~(35)Cl分子提供有力的理论依据.