Shift of nuclear clock transition frequency in ${}^{229}$Th ions due to hyperfine interaction

Abstract

We calculate hyperfine structure of ${}^{229}$Th and its ions (Th~IV, Th~III, Th~II, Th~I) to reveal the dependence of the nuclear clock frequency on the hyperfine interaction (hfi). We calculate first and second-order hfi shifts and demonstrate that due to the differences in the hyperfine structure for different ions and for the ground and isomeric nuclear states, the nuclear frequencies in Th~IV, Th~III, Th~II and Th~I are also different. The first-order shift of frequency is large for a particular hyperfine component, but it vanishes after averaging over all hyperfine states. The second-order shift is small but it does not vanish after averaging. It is three to six orders of magnitude smaller than the shift of the nuclear frequencies due to the Coulomb electron-nucleus interaction considered in our previous work (V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum, arXiv:2309.11176 (2023)). However, it is six to eight orders of magnitude larger than the projected accuracy of the nuclear clock ($10^{-19}$).

6 pages, 6 tables, no figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2309.11176

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