Abstract
A high-precision examination of the hyperfine spectrum of Li6 I in comparison with Li7 I shows a shift in the iodine nuclear electric quadrupole moment that cannot be accounted for by a model in which the electric field gradient at the iodine site is assumed to depend only upon the internuclear distance between Li and I. The other hyperfine interactions are consistent between the two isotopomers, including the previously reported electric hexadecapole interaction of the iodine nucleus.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 134321 |
| Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue number | 13 |
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| State | Published - Oct 3 2005 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation for supporting this work as well as the Hardy Research Fellowship and St. Olaf College.