Static Electric Quadrupole Moments in the Ground State and K = 4–1 Bands in 168Er

The time differential perturbed angular correlation (TDPAC) technique has been used to study the nuclear quadrupole interactions of the first excited state of ground state rotational band (2+, 80 keV, T1/2 = 1.88 ns) and the band head of the = 41- band (41-,1094 keV, T1/2 = 120 ns) in the 168Er nucleus of a polycrystalline Er host. At room temperature we obtained the electric quadrupole interaction frequencies ω0(K= 0) = 457(15) Mrad/s and ω0(K= 4) = 69(2) Mrad/s, respectively, for the 2+ and 4- isomeric states of 168Er. The ratio of the spectroscopic quadrupole moments, i. e. Qs (K= 4)/Qs (K= 0) = 0.69(3), is independent of any model approximation and the electric field gradient at 168Er in the host metal

Stability of in 111In-ligand Complexes Studied by TDPAC

The TDPAC technique has been applied to study the stability of 111In complexes with NTA and DTPA in solutions with different concentrations of stable In at pH = 7. A sample of In-DTPA complexes attached to microspheres of albumin (MSA) has been measured at temperatures of 293 and 130 K. The results show that the products formed after 111ln → 111Cd decay and following Auger-effect are determined by the stability of In (Cd)-complexes with organic ligands. The daughter Cd behaviour depends on the In: ligand mole ratio, from 1: ∞ to 1:1. The possibility of Cd-ligand complex destruction and following Cd rechelating is discussed. The results indicate that the rechelating probability correlates with the stability of the parent and daughter complexes.

PAC Studies of Ag-Hf Intermetallic Compounds

The hyperfine quadrupole interaction of 181Ta and 111Cd probes in HfAg and HfiAg com-pounds was studied at 24 to 1100 K with the time -differential perturbed angular correlation (TDPAC) technique. The EFGs measured in HfAg on 181Ta and 111Cd are 1.388(5)x1018 Vcm-2 and 0.340(5)x1018 Vcm -2 , respectively. For both probe atoms a linear decrease of the EFG with temperature was observed with slopes 1.11(2)x10-4 K-1 and 1.73(5)x10-4 K-1 for 181Ta and 111Cd, respectively. In Hf2 Ag, 0.469(2)x1018 Vcm-2 was determined on 181Ta nuclei and 0.428(5)x1018 Vcm-2 on 111Cd. Also a linear EFG temperature dependence with the large slope of 2.39(6)x10-4 K-1 was observed for 111Cd probes in Hf2Ag, while the EFG measured on 181Ta nuclei in this compound exhibits a very weak temperature variation which can be fitted neither with a linear T nor a T 3/2 dependence. In all cases the electronic contributions to the EFG are very small indicating that these transition element systems do not obey the universal correlation between the electronic and the ionic EFG observed in numerous other systems not belonging to the transition metal series.

Study of the EFG Trends in Zr2T (T = Fe, Co, Ni) Intermetallic Compounds

We use the linear muffin-tin orbital formalism, in the atomic sphere approximation, to investigate the trends of the electric field gradient (EFG) at the nucleus for the non-equivalent sites in Zr2T (T = Fe, Co and Ni) intermetallic compounds. As all those compounds crystallize in the same C16 crystallographic structure, they offer a rare opportunity to investigate electronic structure effects coming from transition metals on the EFG at Zr site. Those results are compared with EFG values obtained from quadrupole coupling constant measurements performed with the time differential perturbed angular correlation (TDPAC) technique, using the 191Ta probe.