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levels of the system, About 5, 000 resonances due to allowed and forbidden transitions within these triplet levels were observed and fit to this Hamiltonian for various orientations of the magnetic field with respect to these crystals, Although a perturbation treatment was adequate for the analysis of the second -neighbor Nd3+ pair spectra, it was necessary to diagonalize the spin Hamiltonian in order to analyze the spectra associated with the first-neighbor Nd3+ pairs, The observed symmetry of the second-neighbor interaction tensors in these two salts suggests that the halide ions play an important role, By removing the dipolar contributions to A.. , quantitative 1J results regarding the nature of the nondipolar spin -spin interaction are obtained, No resonances attributable to pairs were detected at X-band in LaC13 doped with either Ce3+ or er3+","abstract_html":"Measurements of the electron spin resonance spectra of first- and second-neighbor Nd3+ pairs in LaC13 and LaBr3 were made 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