Possible ways for triggering the 179m2Hf isomer

Realistic approaches to triggering of the 179m2Hf isomer are discussed. The nuclear level scheme of 179Hf suggests three promising ways for triggering, but two of them are seemingly closed by the high multipolarities of the required electromagnetic transitions. New possibilities to overcome such restrictions are deduced by utilizing a model of atomic-nuclear compound states. A new and productive method of observing triggering would base an experiment on the use of an electron cyclotron resonance ion trap, ECRIT. Some quantitative details of the behaviour of 179m2Hf and 242mAm atomic-nuclear systems in an ECRIT environment are examined. Many important parameters are as yet unknown and they can be estimated only after the new type of experiments proposed here in which high rates of triggering are possible