Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Relativistic and resonant effects in the ionization of heavy atoms by ultra-intense hard X-rays

  • Benedikt Rudek,
  • Koudai Toyota,
  • Lutz Foucar,
  • Benjamin Erk,
  • Rebecca Boll,
  • Cédric Bomme,
  • Jonathan Correa,
  • Sebastian Carron,
  • Sébastien Boutet,
  • Garth J. Williams,
  • Ken R. Ferguson,
  • Roberto Alonso-Mori,
  • Jason E. Koglin,
  • Tais Gorkhover,
  • Maximilian Bucher,
  • Carl Stefan Lehmann,
  • Bertold Krässig,
  • Stephen H. Southworth,
  • Linda Young,
  • Christoph Bostedt,
  • Kiyoshi Ueda,
  • Tatiana Marchenko,
  • Marc Simon,
  • Zoltan Jurek,
  • Robin Santra,
  • Artem Rudenko,
  • Sang-Kil Son,
  • Daniel Rolles

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06745-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Availability of intense hard X-ray pulses allows exploration of multiple ionization effects in heavier elements. Here, the authors measure the complex charge state distributions of xenon and found a reasonable agreement by comparing with the model including the relativistic and resonance effects.