Magnetic Moment of the Second Excited State ofF19

The perturbation of the angular distribution of the 197-kev gamma rays following inelastic scattering of protons in ${\mathrm{F}}^{19}$ has been measured as a function of an external magnetic field and the magnetic moment of the 197-kev state has been extracted from these measurements. A value of +(3.70±0.45) nuclear magnetons has been found. The lifetime of this state has been determined precisely: $\tau =(1.23\mathrm{}\pm 0.07)\times {10}^{-7\mathrm{}}$ sec.