EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2019)

Evaporation of an anisotropic nanoplasma

  • Bacellar Camila,
  • Chatterley Adam S.,
  • Lackner Florian,
  • Pemmaraju C.D.,
  • Tanyag Rico M. P.,
  • Bernando Charles,
  • Verma Deepak,
  • O’Connell Sean,
  • Bucher Maximilian,
  • Ferguson Kenneth R.,
  • Gorkhover Tais,
  • Ryan N. Coffee,
  • Coslovich Giacomo,
  • Ray Dipanwita,
  • Osipov Timur,
  • Neumark Daniel M.,
  • Bostedt Christoph,
  • Vilesov Andrey F.,
  • Gessner Oliver

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920506006
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 205
p. 06006

Abstract

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Intense laser induced plasma dynamics in sub-micron scale helium droplets are monitored by femtosecond time-resolved X-ray coherent diffractive imaging. Anisotropic surface softening and strongly anisotropic shrinking of the plasma core are observed.