1953/11/01 by John Wheeler · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · #Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena #Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques #Superconducting Materials and Applications #Physics #Quadrupole #Meson #Charge radius #Effective nuclear charge #Nuclear physics #RADIUS #Nuclear structure #Polarizability #Nuclear magnetic moment #Atomic physics #Nuclear matter #Magnetic moment #Proton #Nucleon #Spin magnetic moment #Electron #Quantum mechanics
paper · doi:10.1103/physrev.92.812
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The gamma ray ("Chang radiation") given out in the transition of a meson to the 1s ground state from a 2p orbit around a heavy nucleus of nonzero quadrupole moment is concluded to consist of several components of appreciable separation. Measurements of their energies should give information on (1) nuclear radius, (2) nuclear quadrupole moments, (3) the magnetic moment of the meson, (4) the nonuniformity of the nuclear charge distribution, and (5) nuclear polarizability and compressibility.