Isotope Shift in the Arc Spectrum of Nickel
- 15 March 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 121 (6), 1726-1731
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.121.1726
Abstract
The isotope shift in 31 spectral lines in the nickel arc spectrum has been determined by the use of a Fabry-Perot interferometer. The normal mass shifts were calculated (≈+0.025 between and ) and subtracted from the observed isotope shifts. The differences were attributed to the specific mass and field effects. The relative shifts of levels of four configurations were deduced from the observed line shifts, these being the "complex" configurations and and the two-electron configurations and . It was shown that the shifts due to the specific mass effect are a significant part of the observed shifts. Perturbations due to interconfiguration interactions were postulated to explain some of the observed shifts. The isotope shift to be expected between and on the basis of field effect calculations is about -0.02 for a single electron, while the shifts observed are as large as +0.190 . A large fraction of this shift must therefore be attributed to the specific mass effect. By noting the deviations of the relative shifts between adjacent pairs of even isotopes from those predicted by mass effect theory, it was possible to deduce the relative field effect. The relative level shift resulting from the field effect is nearly the same for the adjacent isotope pairs 60-62 and 62-64 while the relative level shift for the isotope pair 58-60 is approximately 0.004 larger than that for the other adjacent isotope pairs. The arrangement of neutrons in the outermost nuclear shells is believed to account for this difference. Within the experimental error the level shift of the relative to the neighboring even isotopes is such that there is no odd-even staggering of the levels.
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