Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1934. / Typescript. With this is bound: Temperature variation of the magnetic susceptibility, gyromagnetic ratio, and heat capacity in Sm⁺⁺⁺ and Eu⁺⁺⁺ / by Amelia Frank. Reprinted from Physical review, vol. 39, no. 1 (1 Jan. 1932), p. 119-129. Includes bibliographical references.

Low Temperature Nuclear Orientation (LTNO) is an important technique in the study of nuclei far from stability. The theory of LTNO and its application to the measurement of static nuclear moments and other quantities of spectroscopic interest are reviewed. The off-line facility at Oxford was used to study the decay of ¹³³I→¹³³Xe and ¹³⁵I→¹³⁵Xe. ¹³³I having Z=53 and N=80 has three protons above the closed shell Z=50 and two neutrons holes in N=82 shell, while ¹³⁵I has fully closed neutron shell since it has N=82, and they are of considerable theoretical interest since a wide variety of the theoretical nuclear models may be used to describe the observed levels close to the stable double closed shell structure. Another aim is to search for the nuclear magnetic dipole moment of the ground state of ¹³⁵I. Nuclear orientation of ¹³³IFe and ¹³⁵IFe enabled the mixing ratios of several transitions in the decay scheme of ¹³³I and ¹³⁵I to be determined. From temperature dependence for ¹³⁵I, the nuclear magnetic moment of ¹³⁵I has been deduced. Also temperature dependence for ¹³³I, analysed using a simple model, gave value for the magnetic hyperfine field that differed from previous published values. The method of combining nuclear orientation with NMR has become a very popular technique in recent years for determining nuclear magnetic dipole moments very precisely. The purpose of the NMR/ON experiment was to measure the hyperfine field with greater precision and to get some idea of the proportion of nuclei subject to it. Light Eu and Sm nuclei have attracted attention as systems with the number of protons right below the Z=64 subshell gap and the number of neutrons approaching N=82 major shell closure. Odd-proton, odd-neutron and odd-odd nuclei near the A=140 region have been investigated in the framework of the particle-triaxial rotor model. Main attention has been paid to explanation of experimental magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments of ground and isomeric states. Model predictions for deformation parameters of ^136-142Sm even-even cores have been extracted.