RECOILLESS RESONANCE ABSORPTION BY 6.2 KEV STATE IN 181TA

A strong recoilless resonance absorption was observed for the extraordinarily narrow 6.2 keV level (T1/2=6.8 μs) of181Ta. Using sources of181W in W-metal and Ta-metal absorbers, a linewidth of about 9 times the natural width was obtained, with an enormous isomer shift of +(0.85±0.02) mm/sec, which is equivalent to a shift by 260 times the natural linewidth. Recoilless resonance spectra of cold worked and of oxygen doped absorbers showed a high sensitivity of the linewidth against lattice imperfections due to inhomogeneous quadrupole interactions and isomer shifts. Measurements of the residual resistivity ratio and of the lattice constant of the impurity doped absorbers yielded a linear correlation between linewidth and isomer shift. © 1969 Springer-Verlag.