Refined nuclear magnetic octupole moment of ${}^{113}$In and ${}^{115}$In

Abstract

The refined values of the magnetic octupole moments of ${}^{113}$In and ${}^{115}$In are obtained by combining high-precision atomic calculations with corresponding hyperfine structure spectrum. We performed an \textit{ab initio }calculations of hyperfine-structure properties for the low-lying states of In atom using the single and double approximated relativistic coupled-cluster method. The hyperfine-structure properties includes first-order hyperfine-structure constants and the second-order magnetic dipole-magnetic dipole, magnetic dipole-electric quadrupole, and electric quadrupole-electric quadrupole effects caused by the off-diagonal hyperfine interaction. Based on our theoretical results, we reanalyze the previously measurements of hyperfine splitting in the 5$p_{3/2}$ state of ${}^{113}$In and ${}^{115}$In [Eck and Kusch, Phys. Rev. 106, 958 (1957)], determining corresponding hyperfine-structure constants $A$, $B$, and $C$. By combining these undated HFS constants and our theoretical results, the magnetic octupole moments of ${}^{113}$In and ${}^{115}$In nuclei are extracted to be $\Omega {(}^{113}\mathrm{In})=0.455(44)$~${\mu }_{\mathrm{N}}\times \mathrm{b}$ , and $\Omega {(}^{115}\mathrm{In})=0.443(42)$~${\mu }_{\mathrm{N}}\times \mathrm{b}$, respectively. The refined values of magnetic octupole moments are about smaller 21\% than the previously reported results by Eck and Kusch [Phys. Rev. 106, 958 (1957)]. Additionally, we also determine the electric quadrupole moment of ${}^{115}$In nuclei to be $Q{(}^{115}\mathrm{In})=0.767(9)$ b by combining our theoretical results and the measured values for hyperfine-structure constants of the 5$p_{3/2}$ and 6$p_{3/2}$ states. Our results are compared with available experimental and theoretical results.

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