$\ensuremath{\gamma}$-ray-pulse formation in a vibrating recoilless resonant absorber

$γ$ -ray-pulse formation in a vibrating recoilless resonant absorber

V. A. Antonov, Y. V. Radeonychev, and Olga Kocharovskaya

Phys. Rev. A 92, 023841 – Published 21 August 2015

Abstract

We study propagation of $γ$ radiation from a Mössbauer radioactive source through a vibrating recoilless resonant absorber and find the optimal conditions to produce a periodic train of $γ$ -ray pulses with maximum peak intensity, several times higher than the intensity from the source, and minimum duration, much shorter than the lifetime of the emitting nuclear state of the source. The shape, duration, and repetition rate of the pulses are tunable in a wide range. We propose modifications of the recently reported experiment [F. Vagizov et al., Nature (London) 508, 80 (2014)] to produce pulses with higher peak intensity and shorter duration using absorbers enriched by the resonant nuclei and discuss possible applications of the generated pulses for the time-domain Mössbauer spectroscopy.

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Received 30 October 2014
Revised 5 June 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.023841

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V. A. Antonov^1,2,3,*, Y. V. Radeonychev^1,2,3, and Olga Kocharovskaya⁴

¹Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
²N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 23 Gagarin Avenue, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
³Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya Street, Kazan 420008, Russia
⁴Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Studies and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA

^*Corresponding author: antonov@appl.sci-nnov.ru

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$γ$ -ray-pulse formation in a vibrating recoilless resonant absorber

V. A. Antonov, Y. V. Radeonychev, and Olga Kocharovskaya

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