Hyperfine structure of the metastable 3P2 state of alkaline earth atoms as an accurate probe of nuclear magnetic octupole moments

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2007-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/0709.2655v2

Phys. Rev. A 77, 012512 (2008)

Physics

Atomic Physics

11 pages, Phys. Rev. A in press. In v2 added discussion of second-order magnetic-dipole electring-quadrupole correction

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.77.012512

Measuring the hyperfine structure (HFS) of long-lived $^3P_2$ states of divalent atoms may offer the opportunity of extracting relatively unexplored nuclear magnetic octupole and electric hexadecapole moments. Here, using relativistic many-body methods of atomic structure and the nuclear shell model, we evaluate the effect of these higher nuclear moments on the hyperfine structure. We find that the sensitivity of HFS interval measurements in $^{87}$Sr needed to reveal the perturbation caused by the nuclear octupole moment is on the order of kHz. Results of similar analyses for $^{9}$Be, $^{25}$Mg, and $^{43}$Ca are also reported.

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