Hyperfine Structure measurements of 45Sc
Abstract
A chain of charge radii shows discontinuity at nucleon magic numbers. This signature of the shell closure, however, is missing at the neutron magic number N = 20 for Ar, Ca and K isotopes. A collinear laser spectroscopy experiment on the stable 45Sc isotope, which is one proton added to Ca, was performed as a prerequisite of radioactive beam experiments on Sc across N = 20 to further investigate the abnormal behavior. The experiment was performed at BEam COoling and LAser spectroscopy (BECOLA) facility at NSCL and a hyperfine spectrum was measured for the electronic transition of 3 d 4 s 3D1 --> 3 d 4 p 3F2 at λ = 364 . 3 nm in 45ScII. The magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole hyperfine coupling constants A and B of both the lower and upper states were obtained from the hyperfine structure by fitting a pseudo-Voigt profile. The results obtained from these data are in good agreement with previous values and have smaller statistical errors. The detail of experiment and analysis will be discussed.
This work was supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY-11-02511.- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015APS..DNP.EA103J