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The Coherent-Path Model for Nuclear Resonant Gamma-Ray Scattering: An Overview

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A “coherent-path” model for nuclear-resonant scattering of gamma radiation from resonant matter has been developed and is summarized here. The solution provides a unified microscopic picture of nuclear-resonant scattering processes. The coherent-path model shows that the “speed-up” and “dynamical beating” effects are primarily a consequence of the fact that a single “effective” nuclear scattering process is 180° out of phase with the incident radiation. The model is used to explain and understand the results when applied to time-differential Mössbauer spectroscopy, time-differential synchrotron radiation spectroscopy, and the “gamma echo”.

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  1. Physics Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23529-0116, USA

    Gilbert R. Hoy

  2. Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium

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Hoy, G.R., Odeurs, J. The Coherent-Path Model for Nuclear Resonant Gamma-Ray Scattering: An Overview. Hyperfine Interactions 141, 135–139 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021266306354

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