Measurements of ionic structure in shock compressed lithium hydride from ultrafast x-ray Thomson scattering.

We present the first ultrafast temporally, spectrally, and angularly resolved x-ray scattering measurements from shock-compressed matter. The experimental spectra yield the absolute elastic and inelastic scattering intensities from the measured density of free electrons. Laser-compressed lithium-hyd...

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Hlavní autoři: Kritcher, A, Neumayer, P, Brown, C, Davis, P, Döppner, T, Falcone, R, Gericke, DO, Gregori, G, Holst, B, Landen, O, Lee, H, Morse, E, Pelka, A, Redmer, R, Roth, M, Vorberger, J, Wünsch, K, Glenzer, S
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: 2009
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Shrnutí:We present the first ultrafast temporally, spectrally, and angularly resolved x-ray scattering measurements from shock-compressed matter. The experimental spectra yield the absolute elastic and inelastic scattering intensities from the measured density of free electrons. Laser-compressed lithium-hydride samples are well characterized by inelastic Compton and plasmon scattering of a K-alpha x-ray probe providing independent measurements of temperature and density. The data show excellent agreement with the total intensity and structure when using the two-species form factor and accounting for the screening of ion-ion interactions.