Magnetic Splitting of Quasimolecular Electronic States in Strong Fields
- 8 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 36 (10), 517-520
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.36.517
Abstract
The heavy-ion motion in sub-Coulomb collisions generates extreme magnetic fields. The hyperfine splitting of the spin-½ quasimolecular electronic states in U + U is found to reach 10% of the molecular binding energy (100 keV). Also Pb+Pb and Xe+Xe collisions are considered.Keywords
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