An experiment in excitation of a Mössbauer level of⁵⁷Fe with synchrotron radiation

Moessbauer spectroscopy

“…Several laboratories are involved with proposing or experimenting with the use of synchrotron radiation as a source for Móssbauer spectroscopy. The group at the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute in Moscow has proposed the following experimental procedure for observing a7Fe resonant transition (13): After a preliminary monochromatization of the synchrotron radiation using Ge monocrystals, the coherent background is suppressed by using a purely nuclear reflection followed by a reduction of the noncoherent background using an analyzing crystal. Some preliminary experimental results have been obtained.…”