1. Review of Induced Gamma Emission and Gamma-Ray Laser Research

   • Forrest J. Agee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 6

2. Preface

   • Lev A. Rivlin
   • James J. Carroll

   Preface Pages: 7 - 8

3. Proposal for Observation of a Hidden Nuclear Population Inversion

   • F. J. Agee
   • J. J. Carroll
   • V. Vuletic

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 11

4. Nuclear Excitation by X-Ray Emission of Femtosecond Laser Plasma

   • A. V. Andreev
   • R. A. Chalykh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 22

5. Non-Linear Excitation and Decay of Low-Energy Nuclear Isomers Produced under Femtosecond Laser–Plasma Interaction

   • A. V. Andreev
   • O. V. Chutko
   • E. V. Tkalya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 36

6. Initial Search for Triggered Gamma Emission from ¹⁷⁸Hf^m2 Using the YSU Miniball Array

   • J. J. Carroll
   • J. Burnett
   • F. J. Agee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 54

7. Beam-Based Production of ^178m2Hf

   • J. Paul Farrell
   • V. Dudnikov
   • G. Merkel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 61

8. Preparation and De-excitation Measurements of ^177mLu Using Fast Neutrons

   • N. A. Guardala
   • J. L. Price
   • J. H. Barkyoumb

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 68

9. Possibility of Combining Nuclear Level Pumping in a Plasma with Lasing in a Solid

   • S. A. Karamian
   • J. J. Carroll

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 78

10. Electron Shell as a Resonator

    • F. F. Karpeshin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 96

11. Induced Transparency for Gamma Radiation via Nuclear Level Mixing

    • J. Odeurs
    • R. Coussement
    • O. Kocharovskaya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 110

12. Gamma Spectroscopy of Hf-178m2 Using Synchrotron X-Rays

    • H. E. Roberts
    • M. Helba
    • F. J. Agee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 119

13. Laser-Mössbauer Spectroscopy as a New Tool for Nuclear Transitions

    • Yuri Rostovtsev
    • Roman Kolesov
    • Olga Kocharovskaya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 131

14. Generating an Inversion on a Nuclear Transition – Photopumping of ¹⁰³Rh

    • Frank Stedile

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 142

15. Mechanisms of K Mixing: the Role of Octupole Vibrations in ¹⁸⁰Ta

    • P. M. Walker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 151

16. Non-Radiative Triggering of Long-Lived Nuclear Isomers

    • A. A. Zadernovsky
    • J. J. Carroll

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 174

17. Author Index to Volume 143/1–4 (2002)

    Authors Index Pages: 175 - 175