Skip to content

Induced Emission of Gamma Radiation from Isomeric Nuclei

Silviu Olariu, Agata Olariu

nucl-exarXiv:nucl-ex/9908009

Abstract

We study the possibility to influence the lifetime of nuclear isomeric states with the aid of incident fluxes of photons. We assume that a nucleus initially in an isomeric state |i> first absorbs an incident photon of energy Eni to reach a higher intermediate state |n>, then the state |n> decays to a lower state |l>. In favorable cases the two-step induced emission rates become equal to the natural isomeric decay rates for incident power densities of the order of 1010 W cm-2.

Create a lesson