Published May 8, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Quadrupole moment of 37K

  • 1. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 (United States)
  • 3. Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195 (Japan)

Description

The electric quadrupole coupling constant of the ground state of 37K(Iπ=3/2+, T1/2=1.22 s) in a tetragonal KH2PO4 single crystal was measured to be |eqQ/h|=2.99±0.07 MHz using the β-ray detecting nuclear quadrupole resonance technique. The electric quadrupole moment of 37K was determined to be |Q(37K)|=10.6±0.4 efm2, where the known electric quadrupole coupling constant of stable 39K in the KH2PO4 crystal was used as a reference. The present experimental result is larger than that predicted by shell-model calculations in the sd or the sd and fp model spaces. A possible variation of effective charges was explored to explain the discrepancy

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.03.049

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.03.049;
arXiv
arXiv:0803.3923v1;
PII
S0370-2693(08)00390-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
662
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 389-395
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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