Mossbauer transition mode

Recently a new technique has come into use which avoids radioactivity as well as after-effects conversion electron spectroscopy This method uses the fact that in most Mossbauer transitions not only 7-rays but also conversion electrons are emitted. In the case of Co the electron conversion is the major decay mode. Thus, instead of measuring the 7-rays, absorbed or reflected from an absorber, one measures the emission of electrons from the absorber as a function of the velocity... 

The 130 keV State. The decay of the 130 keV state has been studied extensively, and several inconsistencies are being resolved. The results of different measurements of the mean life and decay mode of the 130 keV state are discussed by Fink and Benczer-Koller (8). The half-life of the state has been measured electronically, and the transition matrix element for excitation has been derived from Coulomb excitation data (12). The combination of the Coulomb excitation yield, the internal conversion coefficient (8) a = 1.76 =t= 0.19, and the branching ratio (8) PCo = 0.060 zb 0.008 for the crossover decay to ground, yields a half-life ti/2 = (0.414 0.014) ns in excellent agreement with a recent (15) Mossbauer determination of the line width, r = (4.4 zb 0.4) mm/sec, equivalent to t1/2 = (0.49 0.05) ns. Wilenzick et al. (15) do not indicate the thickness of the Pt absorber used. 

There have been several reports (Boolchand et al., 1999) on glassforming liquids to show that a transition from floppy to rigid states as a function of composition is associated with discontinuities in one or the other properties of the system. These experiments inelude inelastic neutron scattering to characterize the floppy modes, Lamb-Mossbauer factors,... 

Mossbauer experiments in the transmission mode (as shown in Fig. 1) usually use recoilless y-rays emitted from a radioactive source followed by resonant recoilless reabsorption by a non-radioactive absorber. If the probability of recoilless emission from a source is/ and the y-photon has width Fj at half-height then the number of transitions N(E) with energies between E -E) and (Ey-E+dE) is given by ... 

Figure 9.12 shows the crystal structure of [Fe(pyrazine) Pt(CN)4 ] [13]. This complex shows a thermally induced spin-crossover transition (Tct = 284 K, T l = 308 K) with a thermal hysteresis of 24 K, which was observed by means of magnetic susceptibility measurement and Raman spectroscopy. The spin-crossover transition has been confirmed by Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy [13]. The Mossbauer spectrum at 300 K in the cooling mode consists of a single doublet with quadrupole splitting (QS) of 1. 159(5) mm s and isomer shift (IS) of 1.047(3) mm s whose values are typical of the HS state ( T2g, S = 2) of Fe(ll). At 80 K, a new doublet with quadrupole splitting of 0.306(4) mm s and isomer shift of 0.439(2) mm s whose values are typical of the LS state ( A g, 5 = 0) of Fe(ll). The photoinduced spin conversion between the LS and HS states around room temperature has been confirmed by means of Raman spectroscopy within the thermal hysteresis loop of spin-crossover transition, which is shown in Fig. 9.13 [13]. In this complex, the frequency of...

Most Mossbauer spectroscopy experiments are conducted either in the transmission mode, in which a source of well-defined characteristics is used to examine the spectral properties of an unknown absorber, or in the emission mode, in which the source of radiation becomes the sample under investigation and a known or standard absorber is employed to determine the transition energy differences. In both cases, any of a number of y-ray detectors is utilized to record the amount of radiation transmitted through the absorber. 

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