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Until now the nucleus has been often considered as a point charge with infinite mass, when compared to the electron mass. The hyperfine structure in high resolution optical spectra and a variety of experiments that we shall mention at a later stage, point out that the nuclear charge is actually distributed over a finite volume. Several phenomena related to such a charge distribution occur in the atom and can be described as due to nuclear moments.
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Rigamonti, A., Carretta, P. (2007). Nuclear moments and hyperfine interactions. In: Structure of Matter. UNITEXT(). Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0560-0_5
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