Cerium Magnesium Nitrate Temperature Scale from Nuclear Orientation

Author Info

Richard B. Frankel, University of California - BerkeleyFollow
D. A. Shirley, University of California - Berkeley
N. J. Stone, University of California - Berkeley

Recommended Citation

Published in Physical Review, Volume 140, Issue 3A, November 1, 1965, pages 1020-1023.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Richard B. Frankel was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.143.334.

Abstract

Systematic deviations were found below 0.003°K in the temperature dependence of nuclear orientation of Ce^137m in cerous magnesium nitrate, using the temperature scale proposed by Daniels and Robinson. The temperature scale below 0.006°K was redetermined using a new method: nuclear orientation. This has the advantage over the 'Y-ray heating method of high sensitivity at the lowest temperature. The most striking result is hat a value of 1/T of 520, rather than the previously accepted 324, is obtained by demagnetization from initial condItions of 18.8 kG deg^-1. The useful absolute temperature range is thus extended by at least 60% in 1/T. Auxiliary experiments on oriented Pm¹⁴⁴ gave similar results and provided independent confirmation both of the inadequacy of the old temperature scale and of the validity of the new one.

Disciplines

Physics

Copyright

1965 American Physical Society.

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