Dynamics of Hollow Atom Formation in Intense X-Ray Pulses Probed by Partial Covariance Mapping

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作者
Frasinski, L. J. [1 ]
Zhaunerchyk, V. [2 ]
Mucke, M. [2 ]
Squibb, R. J. [1 ,2 ]
Siano, M. [1 ]
Eland, J. H. D. [2 ,3 ]
Linusson, P. [4 ]
v. d. Meulen, P. [4 ]
Salen, P. [4 ]
Thomas, R. D. [4 ]
Larsson, M. [4 ]
Foucar, L. [5 ,6 ]
Ullrich, J. [5 ,7 ,8 ]
Motomura, K. [9 ]
Mondal, S. [9 ]
Ueda, K. [9 ]
Osipov, T. [10 ]
Fang, L. [10 ]
Murphy, B. F. [10 ]
Berrah, N. [10 ]
Bostedt, C. [11 ]
Bozek, J. D. [11 ]
Schorb, S. [11 ]
Messerschmidt, M. [11 ]
Glownia, J. M. [11 ]
Cryan, J. P. [11 ]
Coffee, R. N. [11 ]
Takahashi, O. [12 ]
Wada, S. [13 ]
Piancastelli, M. N. [2 ,14 ]
Richter, R. [15 ]
Prince, K. C. [15 ]
Feifel, R. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Blackett Lab, London SW7 2AZ, England
[2] Uppsala Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
[3] Univ Oxford, Phys & Theoret Chem Lab, Oxford OX1 3QZ, England
[4] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[5] Max Planck Gesell, Adv Study Grp, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[6] Max Planck Inst Med Res, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[7] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[8] Phys Tech Bundesanstalt, D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany
[9] Tohoku Univ, Inst Interdisciplinary Mat Res, Sendai, Miyagi 9808577, Japan
[10] Western Michigan Univ, Dept Phys, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA
[11] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[12] Hiroshima Univ, Dept Chem, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan
[13] Hiroshima Univ, Dept Phys Sci, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan
[14] Univ Paris 06, Lab Chim Phys Matiere & Rayonnement, F-75231 Paris, France
[15] Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
FREE-ELECTRON LASER; IONIZATION; COLLISIONS; IONS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.073002
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
When exposed to ultraintense x-radiation sources such as free electron lasers (FELs) the innermost electronic shell can efficiently be emptied, creating a transient hollow atom or molecule. Understanding the femtosecond dynamics of such systems is fundamental to achieving atomic resolution in flash diffraction imaging of noncrystallized complex biological samples. We demonstrate the capacity of a correlation method called "partial covariance mapping'' to probe the electron dynamics of neon atoms exposed to intense 8 fs pulses of 1062 eV photons. A complete picture of ionization processes competing in hollow atom formation and decay is visualized with unprecedented ease and the map reveals hitherto unobserved nonlinear sequences of photoionization and Auger events. The technique is particularly well suited to the high counting rate inherent in FEL experiments.
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