Modelling dynamics of samples exposed to free-electron-laser radiation with Boltzmann equations

Abstract

We apply Boltzmann equations for modelling the radiation damage in samples irradiated by photons from free electron laser (FEL). We test this method in a study case of a spherically symmetric xenon cluster irradiated with VUV FEL photons. The results obtained demonstrate the potential of the Boltzmann method for describing the complex and non-equilibrium dynamics of samples exposed to FEL radiation.

31 pages, 11 figures

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• Dynamics in a cluster under the influence of intense femtosecond hard x-ray pulses
• Small rare gas clusters in soft X-ray pulses
• Xenon Clusters in Intense VUV Laser Fields
• Ionization of clusters in strong X-ray laser pulses
• Enhanced inverse bremsstrahlung heating rates in a strong laser field

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