For sufficiently wide resonances, nuclear resonance fluorescence behaves like elastic photo-nuclear scattering while retaining the large cross-section characteristic of resonant photo-nuclear absorption. We show that NRF may be used to characterize the signals produced by low-energy nuclear recoils by serving as a novel source of tagged low-energy nuclear recoils. Understanding these signals is important in determining the sensitivity of direct WIMP dark-matter and coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering searches.
@article{arxiv.1105.5156,
title = {A Novel Source of Tagged Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils},
author = {Tenzing H. Y. Joshi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.5156},
year = {2013}
}