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Quadrupole moments of radium isotopes from the 7p 2 P 3/2 hyperfine structure in Ra II

Walter NeuE. ArnoldErnst W. OttenH. J. KlugeG. UlmKlaus WendtGerd PasslerB. FrickeRainer Neugart

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PhysicsAb initio quantum chemistry methodsExcited stateQuadrupoleNuclear Physics - ExperimentQuadrupole splittingAtomic physicsGround stateSpectroscopyHyperfine structureAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsMolecular electronic transition

description

The hyperfine structure and isotope shift of221–226Ra and212,214Ra have been measured in the ionic (Ra II) transition 7s 2 S 1/2–7p 2 P 3/2 (λ=381.4 nm). The method of on-line collinear fast-beam laser spectroscopy has been applied using frequency-doubling of cw dye laser radiation in an external ring cavity. The magnetic hyperfine fields are compared with semi-empirical and ab initio calculations. The analysis of the quadrupole splitting by the same method yields the following, improved values of spectroscopic quadrupole moments:Q s (221Ra)=1.978(7)b,Q s (223Ra)=1.254(3)b and the reanalyzed valuesQ s (209Ra)=0.40(2)b,Q s (211Ra)=0.48(2)b,Q s (227Ra)=1.58(3)b,Q s (229Ra)=3.09(4)b with an additional scaling uncertainty of ±5%. Furthermore, theJ-dependence of the isotope shift is analyzed in both Ra II transitions connecting the 7s 2 S 1/2 ground state with the first excited doublet 7p 2 P 1/2 and 7p 2 P 3/2.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01444425