Atomic and nuclear physics are two flourishing but distinct
branches of physics; the subject of isotope shifts in atomic
spectra is one of the few that links these two branches. It is a
subject that has been studied for well over fifty years, but
interest in the subject, far from flagging, has been stimulated in
recent years. Fast computers have enabled theoreticians to evaluate
the properties of many-electron atoms, and laser spectroscopy has
made it possible to measure isotope shifts in the previously
unmeasurable areas of very rare isotopes, short-lived radioactive
isotopes, weak transitions, and transitions involving high-lying
atomic levels. Isotope shifts can now be measured with greater
accuracy than before in both optical transitions and x-ray
transitions of muonic atoms; this improved accuracy is revealing
new facets of the subject. I am very grateful to Dr. H. G. Kuhn, F.
R. S. , for having introduced me to the subject in the 1950s, and
for supervising my efforts to measure isotope shifts in the
spectrum of ruthenium. I thus approach the subject as an
experimental atomic spectroscopist. This bias is obviously apparent
in my use of the spectroscopist's notation of lower-upper for a
transition, rather than the nuclear physicist's upper-lower. My
reasons are given in Section 1. 3 and I hope that nuclear
physicists will forgive me for using this notation even for muonic
x-ray transitions.
General
Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Physics of Atoms and Molecules |
Release date: |
May 1984 |
First published: |
1984 |
Authors: |
W.H King
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
210 |
Edition: |
1984 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-306-41562-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Physics >
Nuclear structure physics
|
LSN: |
0-306-41562-3 |
Barcode: |
9780306415623 |
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