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Nuclear resonance scattering with synchrotron radiation fascinates with cutting-edge applications in a huge variety of scientific fields ranging from contributions to the basic understanding of relativity theory and quantum electrodynamics to the understanding of electric, magnetic, and dynamic properties on an atomistic scale such as in case of the constituents of the inner of the Earth; of new materials, harder than diamond; and of the functioning of biological and nanoscale systems. It is the unprecedented combination of the outstanding properties of nuclear resonance scattering and synchrotron radiation such as energy resolution, longitudinal coherence length, time resolution, collimation, and focusing, which marks the breakthrough of the technique. Examples under extreme conditions in fields such as geoscience, magnetism, biology, and nanoscale systems will give a flavor of current research.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We use the term \(\upgamma\)-ray for x-rays coming from a nucleus.

  2. 2.

    Unified atomic mass unit \(\text{u}\,\hat{ =}\, 931.494\,\text{MeV}/c^{2}\)

Abbreviations

ADC:

Analog-to-digital converter

APD:

Avalanche photodiode

APS:

Advanced Photon source

CFD:

Constant fraction discriminator

DAC:

Diamond anvil cell

DFT:

Density functional theory

DOS:

(Phonon) density of states

ESRF:

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

GINRS:

Grazing-incidence nuclear resonance scattering

HRM:

High-resolution monochromator

IR:

Infrared (spectroscopy)

MCA:

Multichannel analyzer

ML:

Monolayer

MOKE:

Magnetic optical Kerr effect

NBD:

Nuclear Bragg diffraction

NFS:

Nuclear forward scattering

NIS:

Nuclear inelastic scattering

NRS:

Nuclear resonance scattering

NSAS:

Nuclear small-angle scattering

PETRA III:

Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator

QCP:

Quantum critical point

RAMAN:

RAMAN spectroscopy

SMS:

Synchrotron Mössbauer source

SPring-8:

Super Photon ring-8 GeV

SR:

Synchrotron radiation

SRPAC:

Synchrotron radiation-based perturbed angular correlation

TAC:

Time-to-amplitude converter

TDPAC:

Time-differential perturbed angular correlation

UHV:

Ultrahigh vacuum

XRD:

X-ray diffraction

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Rüffer, R., Chumakov, A.I. (2016). Nuclear Resonance. In: Jaeschke, E., Khan, S., Schneider, J., Hastings, J. (eds) Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14394-1_31

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