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Application of M\"{o}ssbauer effect to study subnanometer harmonic displacements in a thin solid

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-07-05 v1 Materials Science Quantum Physics

Abstract

We measure subnanometer displacements of thin samples vibrated by piezotransducer. Samples contain 57^{57}Fe nuclei, which are exposed to 14.4 keV γ\gamma-radiation. Vibration produces sidebands from a single absorption line of the sample. The sideband intensities depend on the vibration amplitude and its distribution along the sample. We developed a model of this distribution, which adequately describes the spectra of powder and stainless steel (SS) absorbers. We propose to filter γ\gamma-radiation through a small hole in the mask, placed before the absorber. In this case only a small spot of the vibrated absorber is observed. We found for SS foil that nuclei, exposed to γ\gamma-radiation in this small spot, vibrate with almost the same amplitudes whose difference does not exceed a few picometers.

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@article{arxiv.1612.04622,
  title  = {Application of M\"{o}ssbauer effect to study subnanometer harmonic displacements in a thin solid},
  author = {R. N. Shakhmuratov and F. G. Vagizov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04622},
  year   = {2017}
}

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27 pages, 10 figures

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