A feasibility study of nuclear super fluorescence

The Haake-Reibold model for super fluorescence (SF) has been generalized to treat nuclear SF and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). A comparison of theoretical results with experimental pulses obtained from KCI:O2 gives good agreement for atomic SF, ASE and the transition region. This agreement with experiment justifies some confidence in the model for predicting the conditions required for the occurrence of nuclear SF. As a final example, we apply the theory to a real nucleus, 60 Co, created by thermal neutron irradiation of 39 Co, and show under what conditions nuclear SF is possible in this system. The suggested experiment with 60 Co as a source of nuclear SF appears to be feasible