The nuclear magnetic moment of indium-117m

Abstract

The hyperfine structure of 1.9-hour 117mIn has been investigated using atomic magnetic resonance. In the 2P1/2 and 2P3/2 electronic states, the magnetic dipole interaction constants are[Formula: see text]If the possibility of a hyperfine anomaly is neglected, the nuclear magnetic moment of 117mIn is −0.251 46 ± 0.000 03 nuclear magnetons. Thus the nucleus follows the trend shown by other 2p1/2 proton nuclei, namely that the addition of a neutron pair always reduces the deviation from the Schmidt value.