https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-024-01132-3
Review
Nuclear photonics and nuclear isomers
1
Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), 077125, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
2
School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of South China, 421001, Hengyang, China
a
dimiter.balabanski@eli-np.ro
b
wenluo-ok@163.com
Received:
18
December
2023
Accepted:
23
February
2024
Published online:
5
March
2024
Nuclear photonics is a emerging field of science which combines research with new generation 
-ray sources based on traditional and laser-based electron accelerators. Here, we discuss isomeric studies carried out with -ray beams having either continuous, or quasi-monochromatic photon spectra. In experiments with high-power lasers, intense secondary radiation sources are generated. Such experiments explore isomer population or de-excitation in plasma environments. Laser-accelerated particle beams with high charge also facilitate high-energy nuclear excitations, leading to efficient production of nuclear isomers with higher lying isomeric state (reaching MeV energy level) within very-short time scales. The population of isomeric states is a sensitive diagnostic method for characterization of the laser-driven secondary radiation sources.
Dimiter L. Balabanski and Wen Luo have contributed equally to this work.
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