Effect of deorientation in recoil-distance lifetime measurements

Abstract
The influence of hyperfine deorientation in recoil-distance Doppler shift measurements was studied for high spin states in Ar38, K40, K41, and Ca41 having lifetimes in the range between 30 ps and 10 ns. At a recoil velocity of vc=0.02, deorientation in vacuo was found to be negligible for lifetimes up to several ns.