Ground-State Hyperfine Structure and Nuclear Magnetic Moment of Thulium-169

The hyperfine structure of the 4f¹³6s²²F7/2 ground state of Tm¹⁶⁹ has been studied by means of the atomic-beam magnetic-resonance method. By the use of multiple transitions, measurements were made from which the nuclear magnetic moment could be extracted without the use of approximate wave functions. Computer analysis of the experimental data gives the following results: A=-374.1374±0.0016 Mc/sec; gJ=-1.14119±0.00004; gI^'=-(2.478±0.032)×10^-4 (with μI expressed in Bohr magnetons); whence μI=-(0.229±0.003) nm (corrected for the diamagnetic shielding effect of the electrons).