The electric-quadrupole coupling constant of the ground states of the proton drip line nucleus 20Na(Iπ = 2+, T1/2 = 447.9 ms) and the neutron-deficient nucleus 21Na(Iπ = 3/2+, T1/2 = 22.49 s) in a hexagonal ZnO single crystal were precisely measured to be ∣eqQ/h∣=690±12 kHz and 939 ± 14 kHz, respectively, using the multi-frequency β-ray detecting nuclear magnetic resonance technique under presence of an electric-quadrupole interaction. A electric-quadrupole coupling constant of 27Na in the ZnO crystal was also measured to be ∣eqQ/h∣=48.4±3.8 kHz. The electric-quadrupole moments were extracted as ∣Q(20Na)∣ = 10.3 ± 0.8 e fm2 and ∣Q(21Na)∣ = 14.0 ± 1.1 e fm2, using the electric-coupling constant of 27Na and the known quadrupole moment of this nucleus as references. The present results are well explained by shell-model calculations in the full sd-shell model space.
@article{arxiv.0901.1059,
title = {Quadrupole Moments of Neutron-Deficient $^{20, 21}$Na},
author = {K. Minamisono and K. Matsuta and T. Minamisono and C. D. P. Levy and T. Nagatomo and M. Ogura and T. Sumikama and J. A. Behr and K. P. Jackson and M. Mihara and M. Fukuda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1059},
year = {2009}
}