Nobel prize to I. I. Rabi awarded in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei''
KELLOGG 1939
Kellogg, J.M.B.; Rabi, I.I.; Ramsey, N.F.; Zacharias, J.R.; The Magnetic Moment of the Proton and the Deuteron. The Radiofrequency Spectrum of 2H in Various Magnetic Fields
Phys. Rev. 56 (1939) 728;
Reprinted in The Physical Review - the First Hundred Years, AIP Press (1995) CD-ROM.
Abstracts
The molecular-beam magnetic-resonance method for measuring nuclear magnetic moments has been applied to the proton and the deuteron. In this method the nuclear moment is obtained by observing the Larmor frequency of precession (ν = μ H/hI) in a uniform magnetic field. For this purpose HD and D2 molecules are most suitable because they are largely in the state of zero rotational momentum. Very sharp resonance minima are observed which makes it possible to show that the observed values
of ν /H are independent of H, and to make a very accurate determination of the ratio μP/μD. With molecules of orthohydrogen in the first rotational state a radiofrequency spectrum of six resonance minima was obtained. This spectrum when analyzed yields a set of nine energy levels from which are obtained
the proton moment from its Larmor precession frequency;
the proton moment from the magnitude of the dipole interaction between the two proton magnetic
moments (the directly measured quantity is μP/r3); and
the value of the spin orbit interaction constant of the proton moment with the rotation of the molecule or the magnetic field H' produced by the rotation of the molecule at the position of the nucleus.
The numerical results are μP = 2.785 ± 0.02 nuclear magnetons, μD = 0.855 ± 0.006 nuclear magneton; (μP/μD) = 3.257 ± 0.001; H' = 27.2 ± 0.3 gauss;
μP/r3 = 34.1 ± 0.3 gauss which gives μP = 2.785 ± 0.03 nuclear magnetons. To within experimental error there is no disagreement of the results of these direct measurements with those from atomic beam measurements of the h.f.s. Δν of the ground states of H and D.
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Related references More (earlier) information appears in I. I. Rabi, S. Millman, P. Kusch, and J. R. Zacharias, Phys. Rev. 55 (1939) 526;
J. M. B. Kellogg, I. I. Rabi, and J. R. Zacharias, Phys. Rev. 50 (1936) 472;
See also I. Esterman, O. C. Simpson, and O. Stern, Phys. Rev. 52 (1937) 535;
J. H. Manley, Phys. Rev. 49 (1936) 921;
S. Millman, I. I. Rabi, and J. R. Zacharias, Phys. Rev. 53 (1938) 384;
I. I. Rabi, Phys. Rev. 51 (1937) 652;
I. Esterman and O. Stern, Z. Phys. 85 (1933) 17;
B. G. Lasarew and Shubnikow, Physik Zeits. Sowj. 11 (1937) 445;
Particles studied
p
mom
deuteron
mom
Record comments
High-precision measurements of proton and deuteron magnetic moments.