Ultra-efficient ionization of heavy atoms by intense X-ray free-electron laser pulses

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 858-865

  Rudek, Benedikt ^a,b   Son, Sang Kil ^c   Foucar, Lutz ^a,d   Epp, Sascha W ^a,b   Erk, Benjamin ^a,b   Hartmann, Robert ^e   Adolph, Marcus ^f   Andritschke, Robert ^g   Aquila, Andrew ^c,s   Berrah, Nora ^h   Bostedt, Christoph ⁱ   Bozek, John ⁱ   Coppola, Nicola ^c,s   Filsinger, Frank ^j   Gorke, Hubert ^k   Gorkhover, Tais ^f   Graafsma, Heinz ^c   Gumprecht, Lars ^c   Hartmann, Andreas ^e   Hauser, Günter ^g,l   Herrmann, Sven ^g   Hirsemann, Helmut ^c   Holl, Peter ^e   Hömke, André ^a,b   Journel, Loic ^m   Kaiser, Christian ^b   Kimmel, Nils ^l   Krasniqi, Faton ^a,d   Kühnel, Kai Uwe ^b   Matysek, Michael ⁿ   Messerschmidt, Marc ⁱ   Miesner, Danilo ^g   Möller, Thomas ^f   Moshammer, Robert ^a,b   Nagaya, Kiyonobu ^o   Nilsson, Björn ^c   Potdevin, Guillaume ^c   Pietschner, Daniel ^l   Reich, Christian ^e   Rupp, Daniela ^f   Schaller, Gerhard ^g   Schlichting, Ilme ^a,d   Schmidt, Carlo ^a,b   Schopper, Florian ^g   Schorb, Sebastian ^f,i   Schröter, Claus Dieter ^b   Schulz, Joachim ^c,s   Simon, Marc ^m   Soltau, Heike ^e   Strüder, Lothar ^a,l   Ueda, Kiyoshi ^p   Weidenspointner, Georg ^g,l   Santra, Robin ^c,n   Ullrich, Joachim ^a,b,q   Rudenko, Artem ^a,b,r   Rolles, Daniel ^a,d   more..

^a Max Planck Advanced Study Group at Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL)   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e PNSENSOR GMBH   (Germany)

^f TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^h WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^j FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^k FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^l MPI HALBLEITERLABOR   (Germany)

^m CNRS   (France)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^o KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^p TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^r KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE STATE DISTRIBUTION; DEGREE OF IONIZATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; FREE-ELECTRON LASER PULSE; HIGHLY CHARGED IONS; INTERACTION MECHANISMS; TRANSIENT RESONANCE; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

ATOMS; EXCITED STATES; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; X RAY LASERS; X RAYS;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 84870665144     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.261     Document Type: Article

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