Low-temperature nuclear orientation of neutron-deficient terbium nuclei

^{152,153,154m1,154m2,156,160}Tb isotopes have been oriented in a gadolinium matrix at low temperature. A new nuclear thermometer and a consistent evaluation procedure have been developed. The following nuclear moments are derived from the measurements. ¹⁵⁶Tb(3^-): mod mu mod =1.68(21) mu _N, Q=+1.9(7) b; ¹⁵⁴Tb^m1(3^-); mod mu mod =1.8(39) mu _N, Q=+2.4(13) b; ¹⁵³Tb(⁵/₂⁺): mod mu mod =3.5(7) mu _N; ¹⁵²Tb(2^-): mod mu mod =0.60(44) mu _N, Q=+0.4(14) b. Using a reasonable approximation for the electric quadrupole moments mod mu (¹⁵²Tb; 2^- mod =0.9(1) mu _N and mod mu (¹⁵⁴Tb^m2(7^-) mod =0.9(3) mu _N are obtained. The magnetic moments of the odd-odd nuclei allow their proton and neutron configurations to be determined. Experimental magnetic moments are confronted with rotor+quasiparticle calculations involving Coriolis mixing. Reduced electromagnetic transition probabilities are compared with rotational-model calculations using the measured static electromagnetic moments.