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Muon level crossing resonance in aluminium

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Cross relaxation between implanted positive muons and27Al nuclei in Al metal, lightly doped with Cu to impede the muon diffusion, shows weak resonances at 2.3 and 4.0 mT. Assignment of these to polarization transfervia the 1/2 ↔ 3/2 and 3/2 ↔ 5/2 transitions of the (J=5/2) spins leads to a quadrupole coupling constante 2qQ/h=1.8(1) MHz,i.e. an electric field gradient on Al nuclei immediately adjacent to the muon siteq=0.048(3) a.u., with a small departure from axial symmetry.

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  1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS, Oxfordshire, UK

    S. F. J. Cox, G. H. Eaton, D. S. Sivia & M. S. Watt

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    D. W. Cooke, M. Leon, M. A. Paciotti, J. L. Smith & W. L. Hults

  3. Rice University, 77251, Houston, TX, USA

    T. L. Estle & B. Hitti

  4. San Jose State University, 95192, San Jose, CA, USA

    C. Boekema & J. Lam

  5. California Polytechnic State University, 95192, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

    A. Morrobel-Sosa

  6. Texas Tech University, 79409, Lubbock, TX, USA

    R. L. Lichti

  7. Lindsey Wilson College, 42728, Columbia, KY, USA

    J. Oostens

  8. CRN Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

    C. Schwab

  9. Department of Physics, University of Leicester, LEI 7RH, UK

    E. A. Davis & A. Singh

  10. Departamento de Física da Universidade, 3000, Coimbra, Portugal

    N. Ayres De Campos, J. Ayres De Campos, P. J. Mendes & J. M. Gil

  11. TRIUMF, V6T 2A3, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    K. Chow

  12. Emory University, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA

    R. Duvarney

  13. Physik-Institut der Universität, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    P. F. Meier

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Cox, S.F.J., Eaton, G.H., Sivia, D.S. et al. Muon level crossing resonance in aluminium. Hyperfine Interact 85, 59–65 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02069402

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