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Quadrupole Moments of Neutron-Deficient $^{20, 21}$Na

Nuclear Experiment 2009-04-13 v1

Abstract

The electric-quadrupole coupling constant of the ground states of the proton drip line nucleus 20^{20}Na(IπI^{\pi} = 2+^{+}, T1/2T_{1/2} = 447.9 ms) and the neutron-deficient nucleus 21^{21}Na(IπI^{\pi} = 3/2+^{+}, T1/2T_{1/2} = 22.49 s) in a hexagonal ZnO single crystal were precisely measured to be eqQ/h=690±12|eqQ/h| = 690 \pm 12 kHz and 939 ±\pm 14 kHz, respectively, using the multi-frequency β\beta-ray detecting nuclear magnetic resonance technique under presence of an electric-quadrupole interaction. A electric-quadrupole coupling constant of 27^{27}Na in the ZnO crystal was also measured to be eqQ/h=48.4±3.8|eqQ/h| = 48.4 \pm 3.8 kHz. The electric-quadrupole moments were extracted as Q(20|Q(^{20}Na)| = 10.3 ±\pm 0.8 ee fm2^2 and Q(21|Q(^{21}Na)| = 14.0 ±\pm 1.1 ee fm2^2, using the electric-coupling constant of 27^{27}Na and the known quadrupole moment of this nucleus as references. The present results are well explained by shell-model calculations in the full sdsd-shell model space.

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@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}
}

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Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B