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Calculation of the hyperfine structure of Dy, Ho, Cf, and Es

Atomic Physics 2023-03-31 v1

Abstract

A recently developed version of the configuration interaction (CI) method for open shells with a large number of valence electrons has been used to study two heavy atoms, californium (Cf, Z= 98) and einsteinium (Es, Z= 99). Motivated by experimental work to measure the hyperfine structure (HFS) for these atoms, we perform the calculations of the magnetic dipole HFS constants AA and electric quadrupole HFS constant BB for the sake of interpretation of the measurements in terms of nuclear magnetic moment μ\mu and electric quadrupole moment QQ. For verification of our computations, we have also carried out similar calculations for the lighter homologs dysprosium (Dy, Z= 66) and holmium (Ho, Z= 67), whose electronic structures are similar to Cf and Es, respectively. We have conducted a revision of the nuclear moments of some isotopes of Es leading to an improved value of the magnetic moment of 253^{253}Es [μ\mu(253^{253}Es) = 4.20(13)μN\mu_N].

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@article{arxiv.2301.03154,
  title  = {Calculation of the hyperfine structure of Dy, Ho, Cf, and Es},
  author = {Saleh O. Allehabi and V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03154},
  year   = {2023}
}

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