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Collinear laser spectroscopy and β-NMR spectroscopy with optical pumping were applied at ISOLDE/CERN to measure for the first time the magnetic moments of neutron-rich 27Mg, 29Mg, 31Mg and 33Mg, along with the spins of the two latter. The magnetic moment of 27Mg was derived from its hyperfine structure detected in UV fluorescent light, whereas the nuclear magnetic resonance observed in β-decay asymmetry from a polarised ensemble of nuclei gave the magnetic moment of 29Mg. For 31Mg and 33Mg, the hyperfine structure and nuclear magnetic resonance gave the spin and the magnetic moment. The preliminary results for 27Mg and 29Mg are consistent with a large neutron shell gap at N=20, whereas data on 31Mg show that for this nucleus N=20 is not a magic number, which is also the case for 33Mg, based on preliminary analysis. Thus, the two latter isotopes belong to the “island of inversion.”
Magdalena Kowalska for the IS 427 collaboration at ISOLDE/CERN.
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Kowalska, M. (2007). Mg isotopes and the disappearance of magic N=20 Laser and β-NMR studies. In: Błaszczak, Z., Markov, B., Marinova, K. (eds) LASER 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71113-1_15
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