Parametric study of hyperfine structure of Zr II even-parity levels

Abstract

Until now experimental hyperfine structure (hfs) data of 12 even-parity Zr II levels were given in the literature. Recently new hyperfine splitting measurements of 11 other Zr II levels, of the same parity are achieved, applying fast-ion-beam laser-fluorescence spectroscopy. The hfs of these 23 gathered levels has been analysed by simultaneous parametrisation of the one- and two-body interactions, first in model space (4d + 5s)3 and secondly in extended space. For the three lowest configurations, radial parameters of the magnetic dipole A and quadrupole electric B factors are deduced in their entirety for 91Zr II, compared and discussed with calculated values, available in the literature, and also with ours, computed by means of the ab initio method. For instance we give the main experimental values of the extracted single-electron hfs parameters of 4d25s: [Formula: see text] = –2701 MHz, [Formula: see text] = –122.4 MHz, and [Formula: see text] = –113.5 MHz.