DIRECT OBSERVATION OF THE SPONTANEOUS EMISSION OF THE HYPERFINE TRANSITION F=4 TO F=3 IN-GROUND STATE HYDROGENLIKE HO-165(66-BEAM ION-TRAP() IN AN ELECTRON)

Authors
LOPEZURRUTIA JRC BEIERSDORFER P SAVIN DW WIDMANN K
Citation
Jrc. Lopezurrutia et al., DIRECT OBSERVATION OF THE SPONTANEOUS EMISSION OF THE HYPERFINE TRANSITION F=4 TO F=3 IN-GROUND STATE HYDROGENLIKE HO-165(66-BEAM ION-TRAP() IN AN ELECTRON), Physical review letters, 77(5), 1996, pp. 826-829
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
77
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
826 - 829
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1996)77:5<826:DOOTSE>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We report the first direct laboratory measurement of the spontaneous e mission due to the hyperfine splitting of the ground state of a highly charged hydrogenlike ion excited by electron collisions. The transiti on between the F = 4 and F = 3 levels of the 1s(2)S(1/2) configuration of hydrogenlike Ho-165(65+) was observed and its wavelength was deter mined to 5726.4 +/- 1.5 Angstrom. After taking into account relativist ic, nuclear charge distribution, Bohr-Weisskopf, and QED corrections, we observe a significant deviation from commonly tabulated values of t he nuclear dipole magnetic moment of this nucleus.