Clusters in intense FLASH pulses: Ultrafast ionization dynamics and electron emission studied with spectroscopic and scattering techniques

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Bostedt, C ^a,d   Adolph, M ^a   Eremina, E ^a   Hoener, M ^a,e   Rupp, D ^a   Schorb, S ^a   Thomas, H ^a,f   De Castro, A R B ^b,c   Moller T ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE LUZ SÍNCROTRON   (Brazil)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLUSTERS; GASPHASE; HIGH INTENSITY; IONIZATION DYNAMICS; IONIZATION PROCESS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MIE CALCULATIONS; PHOTON ENERGY; PLASMA ABSORPTION; RARE-GAS CLUSTERS; SCATTERING PATTERN; SCATTERING TECHNIQUES; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SINGLE SHOTS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; TIME-SCALES; ULTRA-FAST;

ELECTRON EMISSION; EXPERIMENTS; INERT GASES; IONIZATION OF GASES; LIGHT SOURCES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SCATTERING;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78249239145     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/43/19/194011     Document Type: Article

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