Hyperfine Anomaly in Eu Isotopes and the Universiability of the Moskowitz–Lombardi Formula

Abstract

A method for determining the hyperfine anomaly, without using the nuclear magnetic moments, is used on a series of unstable isotopes of Eu. The large number of experimental data in Eu makes it possible to extract the hyperfine anomaly for a number of unstable isotopes. Calculations of the Bohr–Weisskopf effect and hence the hyperfine anomaly are performed using the particle-rotor formalism. The result from the calculations and experiments is compared with other theoretical calculations and the empirical Moskowitz–Lombardi formula. The results show that the Moskowitz–Lombardi formula is not universal.