Rate for Laser-Induced Nuclear Dipole Absorption

Adriana Pálffy, Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Hans A. Weidenmüller

Using the Brink-Axel hypothesis we derive the rate $R$ for nuclear dipole excitation by a laser pulse carrying $N\gg 1$ photons with average energy $\hslash {\omega }_0\approx 5$ MeV. As e…