Li8Magnetic Dipole Moment

Abstract
Polarized Li8 nuclei recoiling from the reaction Li7(d, p)Li8 were implanted in Au, Pd, and Pt foils, and the Knight-shifted values of the Li8 magnetic dipole moment in these metals were measured by a resonant depolarization technique. From measurements of the spinlattice relaxation times of Li8 implanted in Au, Pd, and Pt, the Knight shifts of Li8 in these metals were estimated. A corrected value for the magnetic dipole moment of Li8 was found to be μ(Li8)=(1.65335±0.00035)μN. Attempts were also made to measure the quadrupole couplings of Li8 in single crystals of Be and Mg. While the resonance lines could not be distinctly resolved, upper and lower limits have been deduced for |e2qQh| in these two metals.