Novel techniques and recent measurements of nuclear moments

An important aspect to understand collective excitations in atomic nuclei is through measurements of their magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments. While nuclear magnetic moments are sensitive to the orbits occupied by the valence particles, the electric quadrupole moments prove the deformation and the collective behavior of nuclei at both low and high excitation energy. Both, the nuclear gyromagnetic factor and the electric quadrupole moment can be compared to theory and thus play important role to establish changes in nuclear shell structure far away from stability. Recent results from experiments aiming at measurements of electromagnetic moments of exotic nuclei will be reported. The following experiments will be discussed: Transient field measurement of the g factor of the first 2⁺ state in ⁷²Zn, which were measured at GANIL at intermediate energies, will be presented, and the experimental technique will be discussed; First measurement of a isomeric electric quadrupole moment in ⁶⁶Cu in transfer reaction will be presented and the perspectives to utilize this technique with post-accelerated ISOL beams in inverse kinematics will be discussed; A method for polarizing of post-accelerated ISOL beams, which is under development at ISOLDE, will be presented. (author)