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Phys. Rev. B 18, 165–172 (1978)

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Quantum beats from nuclei excited by synchrotron pulses

G. T. Trammell and J. P. Hannon

Physics Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77001

Synchrotron pulses will excite low-lying nuclear levels whose subsequent decay will exhibit beats with frequencies equal to the nuclear hyperfine splittings. The highly collimated pulses incident on very small enriched single crystals at a Bragg angle will result in an appreciable fraction of the incident radiation in the spectral width of the nuclear resonance being coherently scattered into a highly collimated beam which will exhibit beats corresponding to the difference frequencies emitted by different nuclei, and a decay parameter Gamma , with marked time dependence.

©1978 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v18/p165
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.18.165
PACS: 1977 76.80.+y, 78.90.+t, 61.10.Dp BK1006

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See Also:

Erratum: G. T. Trammell and J. P. Hannon, Erratum: Quantum beats from nuclei excited by synchrotron pulses, Phys. Rev. B 19, 3835 (1979).

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