Nuclear forward scattering of synchrotron radiation by 99Ru

Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Oct 3;113(14):147601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.147601. Epub 2014 Oct 3.

Abstract

We measured nuclear forward scattering spectra utilizing the (99)Ru transition, 89.571(3) keV, with a notably mixed E2/M1 multipolarity. The extension of the standard evaluation routines to include mixed multipolarity allows us to extract electric and magnetic hyperfine interactions from (99)Ru-containing compounds. This paves the way for several other high-energy Mössbauer transitions, E ∼ 90 keV. The high energy of such transitions allows for operando nuclear forward scattering studies in real devices.