9.8 Suggested Exercises
1.
61 Ni has a nuclear transition at 67 keV. Calculate the recoil energy.
2.
125 Te has an excited state at 35.48 keV with a 1/e lifetime of 2.14 ns. Calculate the
linewidth (FWHM) in (a) neV and (b) mm s
À1 .
3. A typical value for the Debye temperature of Fe metal is ~400 K. Use this to
calculate the predicted Lamb-Mössbauer factor at absolute zero.
4. For an NFS experiment, calculate the position of the first dynamical beat node for
a modestly thick Fe sample with an effective thickness χ ¼ 10.
5. For an NFS experiment, calculate the quantum beat frequency for a very thin Fe
sample with a quadrupolar splitting of 4 mm s
À1 .
6. For
57 Fe SRPAC, calculate the theoretical amplitude of the quantum beats at
θ ¼ 10
and θ ¼ 100
. Estimate the diminished amplitudes at both angles if the
collected solid angle is π/2 steradians.
9.9 Reference Books and Review Articles
1. Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Transition Metal Chemistry: Fundamentals and
Applications, Philipp Gütlich, Eckhard Bill, Alfred X. Trautwein, Springer,
New York 2011, ISBN 3540884270.
2. Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics with Synchrotron Radiation—Basic Principles, Methodology & Applications, Ralf Röhlsberger, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
2004, ISBN 3-540-23244-3.
3. Mössbauer Spectroscopy—Applications in Chemistry, Biology, and Nanotechnology, Virendar K. Sharma, Göstar Klingelhöfer, and Tetsuaki Nishida, eds.,
Wiley, Hoboken, 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-05724-7.
4. Principles of Mössbauer Spectroscopy, T. C. Gibb, Halsted Press, 1976, ISBN
978-0470297438. An old book but the theory is presented simply and does not go
out of date.
5. The Mössbauer Effect—A Review with a Collection of Reprints, Hans
Frauenfelder, W. A. Benjamin, New York, 1963. A very old book, but a nice
collection of papers documenting the early history of this technique.
9.10 Nuclear Software
CONUSS: W. Sturhahn. CONUSS and PHOENIX: Evaluation of nuclear resonant
scattering data. Hyp. Int., 125(1):149–172, 2000. ISSN 1572-9540. doi: 10.1023/A:
1012681503686. URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012681503686
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1.
61 Ni has a nuclear transition at 67 keV. Calculate the recoil energy.
2.
125 Te has an excited state at 35.48 keV with a 1/e lifetime of 2.14 ns. Calculate the
linewidth (FWHM) in (a) neV and (b) mm s
À1 .
3. A typical value for the Debye temperature of Fe metal is ~400 K. Use this to
calculate the predicted Lamb-Mössbauer factor at absolute zero.
4. For an NFS experiment, calculate the position of the first dynamical beat node for
a modestly thick Fe sample with an effective thickness χ ¼ 10.
5. For an NFS experiment, calculate the quantum beat frequency for a very thin Fe
sample with a quadrupolar splitting of 4 mm s
À1 .
6. For
57 Fe SRPAC, calculate the theoretical amplitude of the quantum beats at
θ ¼ 10
and θ ¼ 100
. Estimate the diminished amplitudes at both angles if the
collected solid angle is π/2 steradians.
9.9 Reference Books and Review Articles
1. Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Transition Metal Chemistry: Fundamentals and
Applications, Philipp Gütlich, Eckhard Bill, Alfred X. Trautwein, Springer,
New York 2011, ISBN 3540884270.
2. Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics with Synchrotron Radiation—Basic Principles, Methodology & Applications, Ralf Röhlsberger, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
2004, ISBN 3-540-23244-3.
3. Mössbauer Spectroscopy—Applications in Chemistry, Biology, and Nanotechnology, Virendar K. Sharma, Göstar Klingelhöfer, and Tetsuaki Nishida, eds.,
Wiley, Hoboken, 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-05724-7.
4. Principles of Mössbauer Spectroscopy, T. C. Gibb, Halsted Press, 1976, ISBN
978-0470297438. An old book but the theory is presented simply and does not go
out of date.
5. The Mössbauer Effect—A Review with a Collection of Reprints, Hans
Frauenfelder, W. A. Benjamin, New York, 1963. A very old book, but a nice
collection of papers documenting the early history of this technique.
9.10 Nuclear Software
CONUSS: W. Sturhahn. CONUSS and PHOENIX: Evaluation of nuclear resonant
scattering data. Hyp. Int., 125(1):149–172, 2000. ISSN 1572-9540. doi: 10.1023/A:
1012681503686. URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012681503686
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