Induced neutron capture by nuclei in a laser radiation field
Zaretskii D.F., Lomonosov V.V.
An expression is obtained for the intensity of the high-frequency electric field which appears in the nucleus as a result of the resonant excitation of the electron cloud of an atom by a laser field. The induced capture cross section of a neutron by the nucleus in this field is calculated at a weakly bound level of a compound nucleus. It is pointed out that the induced neutron capture effect makes spectroscopic studies of these levels possible.