“…For 'safe' Coulomb excitation measurements [22], and with the excited nuclei implanted into a medium that does not perturb the spin alignment (typically a cubic metal), the angular correlation, and hence S(θ γ ), can be calculated precisely; for examples see Refs. [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43]. One caveat on this statement is that S(θ γ ) is a very sensitive function of θ γ when the detectors are placed near the maximum slope of the angular correlation as is done for precession measurements.…”