Creation and diagnosis of a solid-density plasma with an X-ray free-electron laser

Nature

Volumn 482, Issue 7383, 2012, Pages 59-62

  Vinko, S M ^a   Ciricosta, O ^a   Cho, B I ^b   Engelhorn, K ^b   Chung, H K ^c   Brown, C R D ^d   Burian, T ^e   Chalupsy J ^e   Falcone, R W ^b,f   Graves, C ^g   Hajkova V ^e   Higginbotham, A ^a   Juha, L ^e   Krzywinski, J ^g   Lee, H J ^g   Messerschmidt, M ^g   Murphy, C D ^a   Ping, Y ^h   Scherz, A ^g   Schlotter, W ⁱ   Toleikis, S ^g   Turner, J J ^e   Vysin, L ^g   Wang, T ^g   Wu, B ^g   Zastrau, U ^j   Zhu, D ^g   Lee, R W ^g   Heimann, P A ^b   Nagler, B ^g   Wark, J S ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d AWE   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^h LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ DESY   (Germany)

^j FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; ELECTRON; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMOGENEITY; ION EXCHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANET; PLASMA; RADIATION BALANCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WAVELENGTH; X-RAY;

BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRON; LASER; MATERIAL STATE; PLASMA CHARACTERISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; X RAY;

EID: 84862777972     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10746     Document Type: Review

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