Determination of nuclear spectroscopic quadrupole moment from muonic /sup 175/Lu and observation of quadrupole-hyperfine splitting in pionic /sup 175/Lu

Abstract only given, substantially as follows. A new method to measure nuclear spectroscopic quadrupole moments is to observe the quadrupole splitting of excited states of the cascade in muonic atoms for which the splitting is large enough to be observed and at the same time the point-nucleus approximation is satisfied. Furthermore, the field gradient of the muon is precisely known and the magnetic dipole interaction can usually be neglected. From an experiment performed at the muon-channel of the CERN Synchrocyclotron with a parasitic beam, the authors have observed the quadrupole splitting of the 4f-3d X-ray transition in muonic /sup 175/Lu. A preliminary evaluation of the data gives a nuclear spectroscopic quadrupole moment of the ground state of /sup 175/Lu, Q=3.46+or-0.06 b. The error quoted is due to statistics. (3 refs)