The Mössbauer Effect

ISBN-13: 9781643274799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 79 str.

Richard A. Dunlap

Opis

The effect which now bears his name, was discovered in 1958 by Rudolf Moessbauer at the Technical University of Munich.At first, this appeared to be a phenomenon related to nuclear energy levels that provided some information about excited state lifetimes and quantum properties. However, it soon became apparent that Moessbauer spectroscopy had applications in such diverse fields as general relativity, solid state physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, medical physics, archeology and art. It is the extreme sensitivity of the effect to the atomic environment around the probe atom as well as the ability to apply the technique to some interesting and important elements, most notably iron, that is responsible for the Moessbauer effect's extensive use. The present volume reviews the historical development of the Moessbauer effect, the experimental details, the basic physics of hyperfine interactions and some of the numerous applications of Moessbauer effect spectroscopy.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Author biography
• The history of resonance fluorescence
• The Mössbauer effect
• Properties of the nucleus
• Hyperfine interactions--part I: the electric monopole interaction and the chemical isomer shift
• Hyperfine interactions--part II: the electric quadrupole interaction
• Magnetic properties of materials
• Hyperfine interactions--part III: the magnetic dipole interaction and the nuclear Zeeman effect
• Applications of Mössbauer effect spectroscopy