Triggering of nuclear isomers by x-ray laser
A. Ya. Dzyublik
Institute for Nuclear Research, Kiev, Ukraine
Abstract
We studied the decay of nuclear isomeric states in the field of
the x-ray laser. The laser pulses are described by the Gaussian
wave packet of linearly polarized electromagnetic waves. At first
stage the laser short pulse generates nuclear transition in the
intermediate excited state, which afterwards decays into the final
state with emission of γ quantum. Simple formulas are
derived for the induced transition probability, which well
correlate with known results, obtained previously for the
incoherent x-ray radiation.