AMO Seminar May 9, at 1:00 PM, Physics 1201
"Francium Spectroscopy
"
Eduardo Gomez
Stony Brook
ABSTRACT: Francium, the heaviest and radioactive alkali,
is an ideal laboratory for studies of nuclear physics and
parity violation. A series of lifetime and hyperfine
splitting measurements in our high efficiency trap show
an understanding of the wavefunctions to better than 1%.
We propose a method to measure the anapole moment in a
chain of francium isotopes to constraint the
values of weak meson-nucleon couplings.
Contact: Luis Orozco