FIZIKA B 14 (2005)  1, 75 - 78

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

HYPERFINE STRUCTURE IN W-NUCLEUS SYSTEM

G. KARL and V. NOVIKOV

Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

Dedicated to the memory of Professor Dubravko Tadić

Received 26 August 2005;  Accepted 10 October 2005
Online 18 November 2005

We discuss the hyperfine structure of a bound state of the W hyperon and a nucleus with an electric quadrupole moment. We note a new type of contact term, analogous to the Fermi contact interaction for magnetic dipoles, this time in P-wave states.

PACS numbers: 14.20.Jn, 13.75.Ev
UDC 539.126

Keywords: W-nucleus system, interaction of electric quadrupoles, W quadrupole moment

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