Photon Tagging is a technique to produce a monochromatic or quasi-monochromatic photon beam in order to perform a photo nuclear experiment. Various techniques have been developed, most often the bremsstrahlung tagging technique is used.
A photo nuclear reaction is induced by the interaction between a photon and a nucleus. Using photons to probe the properties of the nuclei is very valuable since the electromagnetic interaction is well known and...
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Photon Tagging is a technique to produce a monochromatic or quasi-monochromatic photon beam in order to perform a photo nuclear experiment. Various techniques have been developed, most often the bremsstrahlung tagging technique is used.
A photo nuclear reaction is induced by the interaction between a photon and a nucleus. Using photons to probe the properties of the nuclei is very valuable since the electromagnetic interaction is well known and is relatively weak with regard to the strong interaction. Due to this relative weakness, the target nucleus undergoes a minimal perturbation. Also the entire nuclear volume is probed and not only the surface.
In order to perform a photo nuclear experiment, one needs a photon source. In principle, this photon source should produce mono energetic photons, since on is interested in the behavior of the target nucleus at a certain photon energy. The use of a non-monochromatic photon source complicates the interpretation of the measured data,...
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