Nature Communications (May 2020)

Demonstration of X-ray Thomson scattering as diagnostics for miscibility in warm dense matter

  • S. Frydrych,
  • J. Vorberger,
  • N. J. Hartley,
  • A. K. Schuster,
  • K. Ramakrishna,
  • A. M. Saunders,
  • T. van Driel,
  • R. W. Falcone,
  • L. B. Fletcher,
  • E. Galtier,
  • E. J. Gamboa,
  • S. H. Glenzer,
  • E. Granados,
  • M. J. MacDonald,
  • A. J. MacKinnon,
  • E. E. McBride,
  • I. Nam,
  • P. Neumayer,
  • A. Pak,
  • K. Voigt,
  • M. Roth,
  • P. Sun,
  • D. O. Gericke,
  • T. Döppner,
  • D. Kraus

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16426-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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It is challenging to reliably probe the miscibility behavior of elements in extreme conditions. Here, the authors use X-ray Thomson scattering and compare to the X-ray diffraction method in order to determine mixing of different atomic species in warm dense matter conditions.