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Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy

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Spectroscopy naturally began at optical wavelengths, then spread to the ultraviolet and infrared. Gas discharge tubes at low pressures reduced collision broadening; narrow lines and interferometric techniques made possible high-resolution spectrometry, including hyperfine structure. Wolfgang Pauli’s interpretation of this as due to nuclear spin [1], was soon followed by a measurement in Oxford of the hyperfine structure of caesium by Derek Jackson [2]. From this, he estimated a value for the nuclear magnetic moment of 133Cs, though the nuclear spin was not known. (In later years, he remarked: “Sommerfeld did it by wave mechanics; I did it by arithmetic”) Discharge tubes with cathodes cooled in liquid air were used to reduce Doppler broadening.

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Bleaney, B. (1996). Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy. In: Chiao, R.Y. (eds) Amazing Light. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2378-8_8

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