Quantum mechanical theory of the formation of a nuclear emission hologram

The quantum mechanical theory of the formation of an emission hologram with gamma radiation is developed. Radiation, produced by a radioactive source nucleus, can go directly to a detector or can be resonantly scattered by ne ighboring resonant nuclei before going to the detector. The interference be tween these two precesses gives rise to fluctuations in the radiated intens ity as a function of the emission angle. These fluctuations contain informa tion about the surrounding of the emitting nucleus. The coupled system of e quations describing the scattering amplitudes has been solved in the single scattering approximation. [S0163-1829(99)02733-2].