Perspectives for Spectroscopy of Actinides with Highly Brilliant gamma Beams

Abstract

Presently two new research facilities are either already under construction (‘MEGa-Ray’ at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/US) or soon ready to start construction (ELI-Nuclear Physics in Bucharest/Romania), both aiming to provide highly brilliant gamma beams with so far unprecedented properties (ca. 10^13 photons/s, energy resolution delta E/E