Shell explosion and core expansion of xenon clusters irradiated with intense femtosecond soft x-ray pulses

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Thomas, H ^a   Bostedt, C ^a   Hoener, M ^a   Eremina, E ^a   Wabnitz, H ^b   Laarmann, T ^b   Plonjes E ^b   Treusch, R ^b   De Castro, A R B ^c,d   Moller T ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE LUZ SÍNCROTRON   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB REPULSIONS; ELECTROSTATIC MODELS; FEMTOSECONDS; FS PULSE; HIGHLY CHARGED IONS; HYDRODYNAMIC EXPANSION; INNER CORE; ION KINETIC ENERGY; MULTI-STEP; NANOPLASMAS; POWER DENSITIES; SOFT X-RAY PULSE;

FLUID DYNAMICS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

XENON;

EID: 70350696058     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/42/13/134018     Document Type: Article

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