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tehfrr
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Hello
I’m currently reading up on Mössbauer spectroscopy. Now I understand that you can have a low energy gamma emission become absorbed in an atom of the same radionuclide due to resonance (either from a recoilless event or oscillating a source/absorber). While I don’t need to know the details of "how/why" for what I’m doing per se, but it’s been bugging me.
What I don’t understand is the absorption. Is this like a compton scatter? Or does it directly excite the nucleus? Or is there something else I’m missing? What’s going on here?
(edit: ruled out one possibility I proposed)
I’m currently reading up on Mössbauer spectroscopy. Now I understand that you can have a low energy gamma emission become absorbed in an atom of the same radionuclide due to resonance (either from a recoilless event or oscillating a source/absorber). While I don’t need to know the details of "how/why" for what I’m doing per se, but it’s been bugging me.
What I don’t understand is the absorption. Is this like a compton scatter? Or does it directly excite the nucleus? Or is there something else I’m missing? What’s going on here?
(edit: ruled out one possibility I proposed)
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