Abstract

The electric multipole hyperfine interaction in muonic atoms is discussed. In particular, the influence of the finite size of the nuclear electric multipole-charge distribution on the values of nuclear spectroscopic multipole moments that are extracted from muonic hyperfine measurements is considered. It is shown that nuclear electric quadrupole moments can be deduced from the observed hyperfine splittings of muonic M X-ray transitions with high precision and practically independently of the model nuclear quadrupole-charge density. Measurements of the ground-state electric quadrupole moments of 11 deformed nuclei in and near the rare-earth region are discussed.

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