Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory

Department of Physics

University of Toronto

MOS: Mossbauer Effect

The recoil-less emission of nuclear photons is used to study the hyperfine nuclear structure of ⁵⁷Fe and some solid state features of crystalline Fe. Rudolf Mössbauer won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961.

Write-Up in PDF Format (with appendices) or Microsoft Word Format (without appendices).

(The experiment is currently located in MP239; last write-up revision: October 2014.)

Additional resources:

• UCS-30 Spectrometer Manual from Spectrum Techniques.
• Online References available to University of Toronto students
  • "Some simple features of the Mössbauer effect", H.J. Lipkin, Annals of Physics 9 (1960) 332-339.
  • "From a Strange Effect to Mossbauer Spectroscopy", U. Gonser, in Mossbauer Spectroscopy 5 (1975) 1-51, Springer-Verlag Topics in Applied Physics.
  • "Mössbauer Effect in Metallic Iron", R. S. Preston, R.S., S.S. Hanna, and J. Heberle, Physical Review 128 (1962) 2207-2218.
  • "Mössbauer Spectroscopy: Applications in Chemistry, Biology, and Nanotechnology", Editors: V.K. Sharma, G. Klingelhöfer, and T. Nishida, John Wiley & Sons (2014).

3^rd year Arts and Sciences undergraduate, Jesse Dean, working on the Mössbauer Effect.

Last updated on 25 September 2020