On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Do you know if the experiments looked at excited spin energy states that > may be possible at higher spin quanta? Unfortunately I don't have any other details and don't know of a particular experiment to refer to. Here is the quote from a textbook I recently finished reading: For nuclear physicists, the deuteron should be what the hydrogen atom is for atomic physicists. Just as the measured Balmer series of electromagnetic transitions between the excited states of hydrogen led to an understanding of the structure of hydrogen, so should the electromagnetic transitions between the excited states of the deuteron lead to an understanding of its structure. Unfortunately, there are *no excited states* of the deuteron—it is such a weakly bound system that the only "excited states" are unbound systems consisting of a free proton and neutron. [1] Eric [1] Kenneth S. Krane, *Introductory Nuclear Physics*, pp. 80-81; author's emphasis.
