Laser-induced nonresonant nuclear excitation in muonic atoms

2008/12/13 by A. Shahbaz, Atif Shahbaz, Carsten Müller +5 · 14 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Atomic physics #Coulomb #Coulomb excitation #Effective nuclear charge #Electron #Excitation #Isotope #Laser #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Multipole expansion #Muon #Nuclear physics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.02.008

published in Nuclear Physics A 821(1-4), 106-117 (Elsevier BV) · 7 pages, 5 figures

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Abstract

Coherent nuclear excitation in strongly laser-driven muonic atoms is calculated. The nuclear transition is caused by the time-dependent Coulomb field of the oscillating charge density of the bound muon. A closed-form analytical expression for electric multipole transitions is derived and applied to various isotopes; the excitation probabilities are in general very small. We compare the process with other nuclear excitation mechanisms through coupling with atomic shells and discuss the prospects to observe it in experiment.

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