Nuclear electric quadrupole moments of Rb from the hyperfine spectrum of RbF

The molecular beam electric resonance technique has been used to examine the hyperfine spectrum of RbF. The Rb nuclear electric quadrupole interaction, the spin-rotation interactions, and tensor and scalar spin-spin interactions have been measured for both Rb isotopes, including their dependence on vibrational and rotational states. Transition frequencies have been determined to a precision of better than 1 Hz in many cases. The magnetic interactions in the two isotopomers are consistent with what is expected from the known masses and magnetic dipole moments. In the case of the Rb nuclear electric quadrupole interaction, adjustments have been made for a small isotopomer shift, and for the ratio of the effective nuclear electric quadrupole moments, Q(87Rb)Q(85Rb) = 0.483 830 1+/-0.000 001 8. The effective quadrupole interaction includes a pseudoquadrupole interaction that may be significant at this level of precision, but cannot be distinguished experimentally.

An anomaly in the isotopomer shift of the hyperfine spectrum of LiI

A high-precision examination of the hyperfine spectrum of 6LiI in comparison with 7LiI shows a shift in the iodine nuclear electric quadrupole moment that cannot be accounted for by a model in which the electric field gradient at the iodine site is assumed to depend only upon the internuclear distance between Li and I. The other hyperfine interactions are consistent between the two isotopomers, including the previously reported electric hexadecapole interaction of the iodine nucleus.