Nuclear Resonance Scattering and Mossbauer Effect
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2010-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The resonance scattering of a gamma rays constitutes the nuclear analogue to the wellknown
optical fluorescence effect .Since then several methods have been developed
which led to the observation of resonance scattering or absorption in a number of first
excited nuclear states. A major break through took place in 1958 when the phenomenon
of recoilless nuclear resonance absorption was discovered . This new absorption effect
provided a means for the elimination of the energy losses by recoil , these being the
most serious obstacle for the observation of nuclear resonance absorption or
scattering .Simultaneously gamma lines of utmost narrowness became available .It is
this particular feature which opened wide range of applications for new effect , in such
fields as nuclear physics ,solid state physics, and relativity, and made possible
investigations which could not even be considered only a few years ago
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Nuclear Resonance Scattering