Isotope shifts of twenty-two isotopes of strontium, $ sp{78}$Sr to $ sp{100}$Sr excluding $ sp{99}$Sr, and three isomers of strontium, $ sp{83 rm m,85m,87m}$Sr, have been measured using laser spectroscopy. The nuclear spins, magnetic and quadrupole moments, have been extracted from the data for all odd isotopes. The changes in mean square charge radii have also been evaluated for all isotopes and isomers. / The changes in mean square charge radii, which are compared to the predictions of the droplet model and Hartree-Fock plus B.C.S. calculations, show a pronounced shell effect at the closed neutron shell at N = 50 and a sharp increase at N = 60. The theoretical analysis suggests that the change in mean square charge radii for N = 60, 62 is due to the onset of a large static deformation. For the remaining isotopes, the changes are attributed to a change in size, a change in the predominantly dynamic deformation, and a change in the diffuseness of the nuclear charge distribution.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.75755 |
| Date | January 1988 |
| Creators | Ramsay, Eric Barnaby |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000665149, proquestno: AAINL46122, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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