APPROACH TO MAGNETIC SATURATION AND MAGNETIC MOMENTS OF NUCLEI

Large angles between the local direction of magnetization and that of the applied magnetic field, which have been found in experiments involving the embedding of excited nuclei in Fe or Ni foils, are explained in terms of the crystalline imperfections caused by the foreign nucleus when it penetrates the ferromagnetic lattice. A rather crude estimation yields the same results for line or point defects, and it is concluded that the sine of these angles should decrease, with increasing magnetic field H, roughly as 1H. © 1969 The American Physical Society.