1. dr hab. Krzysztof Szymański – department’s head
2. dr hab. Andrzej Andrejczuk, prof. UwB
3. dr hab. Katarzyna Rećko, prof. UwB
4. dr hab. Dariusz Satuła, prof. UwB
5. Marek Brancewicz
6. Anna Matwiejczyk
7. Wojciech Olszewski
8. dr Krystyna Perzyńska
9. Piotr Zaleski
10. mgr Maria Biernacka
11. mgr Łukasz Łabieniec
12. Bogusław Prus

Imaging of hyperfine interactions in Mössbauer spectrometry

Project title: Imaging of hyperfine interactions in Mössbauer spectrometry

Author and project manager: prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Szymański

Source of funding: National Science Centre

Research project type: OPUS 16

Agreement: UMO-2018/31/B/ST3/00279

Project implementation period: 36 months

Project value: PLN 1,217,630.00

Project goals:

1. solving the problem of determining the full set of hyperfine interactions and introducing a new method of measuring single crystals, not burdened with ambiguity,
2. introducing a new research method to Mössbauer spectroscopy - imaging of hyperfine interactions using synchrotron radiation,
3. using new methods to study properties of the Ga-Fe-O multiferroic and comparing obtained results with results of theoretical calculations.

Project implementation:

Synthesis of GaFeO₃ single crystals and their studies by means of X-ray diffraction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, heat capacity, magnetic susceptibility and magnetization measurements.

1. Investigation of charge and spin density distributions by means of X-ray, synchrotron radiation and neutron diffraction.
2. Investigation of nuclear spin interactions with the electronic environment by means of Mössbauer spectroscopy using monochromatic polarized gamma source, spectroscopy of conversion electrons and nuclear resonance scattering of synchrotron radiation.
3. Investigation of electron momentum density distributions (Compton profiles) using nuclear and synchrotron radiation sources.
4. Study of microscopic properties of solids by magnetometric, transport methods, neutron diffraction, muon rotation and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS).
5. Reconstruction of spatial distributions of electron charge, electron momentum, magnetization and hyperfine interactions using maximum entropy methods.
6. Study of relativistic ions interactions with heavy elements’ nuclei.

1. electricity, magnetism and electromagnetism,
2. electromagnetic radiation, visible optics, UV radiation, X-rays, gamma rays,
3. alpha and beta radiation,
4. mechanics, elastic phenomena, strength of materials,
5. thermodynamics,
6. fluid mechanics.

National partners:

1. National Center for Nuclear Research, Świerk
2. Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
3. Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Warsaw
4. Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Krakow, Krakow
5. Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice
6. Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw
7. International Laboratory of Strong Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures, Wroclaw

International partners:

1. Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
3. Spring-8 (Super Photon Ring - 8 GeV), Japan
4. Alba Synchrotron Light Facility, Barcelona, Spain
5. Department of Physics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA
6. KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary
7. Laboratoire Léon Brillouin - CEA -CNRS - Saclay,
8. France Paul Scherrer Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
9. Institute for Energy Technology, JEEP II reactor at Kjeller, Norway
10. Technische Universität, Munich, Germany
11. Darmstadt University of Technology Institute of Materials Science Structure Research, Germany
12. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR, Dubna, Russia