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Nuclear Resonance

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Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers

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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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    We use the term γ-ray for x-rays coming from a nucleus.

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

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Rüffer, R., Chumakov, A.I. (2020). Nuclear Resonance. In: Jaeschke, E., Khan, S., Schneider, J., Hastings, J. (eds) Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23201-6_31

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