Abstract
The hyperfine structure and isotope shift of the heaviest known alkaline earth element radium (Z=88) have been studied in both the atomic Ra I and ionic Ra II spectra. The measurements, carried out by on-line collinear fast-beam laser spectroscopy, yield the hyperfine constantsA andB of the 7s and 7p 1/2 states in Ra II, of all states of the excited 7s 7p configuration and the 7s 7d 3 D 3 state in Ra I. The data allow a consistent evaluation of the nuclear moments for eight odd-A radium isotopes. In particular, a complete analysis of the hyperfine structure of thesp configuration in the two-electron system provides a stringent test of the validity of the semi-empirical modified Breit-Wills theory. It is shown that the effective operator formalism is equivalent, if relativistic correction functions are used to reduce the number of parameters. The semi-empirical hyperfine fields are evaluated and found to agree generally with those from ab-initio calculations. The isotope shifts in thes−p,s 2−sp,sp−sd transitions are analysed semi-empirically and compared with ab-initio calculations. The consistency of the different analyses proves their validity and classifies the spectrum of Ra I as a model case for a simple and clean two-electron spectrum.
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