RF MuSR in the gas phase: The Search for a Radical State

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The main spectroscopic technique for studying radicals in solids and liquids, ESR, cannot usually be used to study radicals of more than 3-5 atoms in the gas phase due to strong coupling between the spin, rotational, and orbital angular momenta. Muon spin rotation/relaxation/resonance (MuSR) does not suffer from this problem, potentially making it superior for gas phase measurements. We are attemping to demonstrate RF MuSR as a new tool for measuring organic radicals in the gas phase, opening up the possibility of measuring muon hyperfine couplings in the dilute limit and bringing the potential for final state spectroscopy and kinetics measurements on gas systems. This is a proposal to search for the radical states formed on muon implantation in ethene and isobutene using the high field spectrometer, HiFi.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088885
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088885
Provenance
Creator Dr Stephen Cottrell; Dr Iain McKenzie; Professor Don Fleming
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-05-29T13:38:06Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-06-06T07:53:35Z