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Determining nuclear quadrupole moments of Bi and Sb from molecular data
Jean-Pierre Dognon1, Pekka Pyykkö2
1Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, NIMBE, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. jean-pierre.dognon@cea.fr.
Abstract:
An independent value of -422(3) millibarn (mb) is obtained for the nuclear quadrupole moment Q(209Bi) using experimental coupling constants for diatomic BiN, BiP, BiF, BiCl, and BiI, combined with full-Dirac CCSD-T calculations of the electric field gradient q. This value lies close to two other recently published molecular results, and a full-triplet CCSDT atomic result. Based on the same approach, we obtained Q(121Sb) = -541.7(0.8) mb and Q(123Sb) = -690.6( 1.0) mb, in agreement with one recently published molecular result.
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