Nuclear resonant scattering

Abstract

Nuclear resonant scattering (NRS) is a set of experimental techniques that use synchrotron radiation (SR) to excite well-defined resonances in atomic nuclei. Studies using NRS require isotopes with large nuclear resonant cross sections and transition energies matching high intensity SR sources. NRS methods typically use timing techniques which makes observation of NRS from isotopes with very short lifetimes technically difficult and resonant energy widths of the order of 10 neV are favorable. Nuclear resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (NRIXS) for the study of lattice dynamics and synchrotron Mossbauer spectroscopy (SMS) for the study of hyperfine interactions have become of practical importance during the past decade at highly brilliant SR facilities.