Aligned Nuclei
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066164
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Conference on Low Temperatures and Nuclear Physics, August 7 and 8, was held to foster an exchange of ideas between scientists in these two fields. Since the alignment of nuclear spins interested both groups, particular emphasis was given to this subject. The low temperature physicist is interested in it because through the use of aligned nuclei it may sometime be possible to obtain temperatures as low as one millionth of a degree absolute. The nuclear physicist is interested because the study of neutron scattering and capture by aligned nuclei will give information about the spin of the nuclear compound state, and about nuclear forces.
