Ultrabright X-ray laser scattering for dynamic warm dense matter physics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 274-279

  Fletcher, L B ^a,b   Lee, H J ^a   Doppner T ^c   Galtier, E ^a   Nagler, B ^a   Heimann, P ^a   Fortmann, C ^d   LePape, S ^c   Ma, T ^c   Millot, M ^b,c   Pak, A ^c   Turnbull, D ^c   Chapman, D A ^e,f   Gericke, D O ^f   Vorberger, J ^g   White, T ^h   Gregori, G ^h   Wei, M ⁱ   Barbrel, B ^b   Falcone, R W ^b   Kao, C C ^a   Nuhn, H ^a   Welch, J ^a,j   Zastrau, U ^k   Neumayer, P ^a   Hastings, J B ^a   Glenzer, S H ^a   more..

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d QuantumWise A S   (Denmark)

^e AWE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^j FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^k GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; HIGH POWER LASERS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; QUANTUM THEORY; SHOCK WAVES; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS; X RAY LASERS;

CHARGED PARTICLE SYSTEM; DYNAMIC COMPRESSION EXPERIMENT; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE; PLANETARY INTERIORS; SHORT-RANGE REPULSION; WARM DENSE MATTERS;

X RAYS;

EID: 84926419769     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.41     Document Type: Article

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