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most citedBounds on heavy axions with an X-ray free electron laser

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11 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

XFEL Imaging Techniques for High Energy Density and Inertial Fusion Energy Research at HED-HiBEF

Alejandro Laso Garcia, Mikhail Mishchenko, Victorien Bouffetier +53

The imaging platform developed at the High Energy Density - Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HED-HiBEF) instrument at the European XFEL and its applications to…

physics.optics2025

Probing laser-driven surface and subsurface dynamics via grazing-incidence XFEL scattering and diffraction

Lisa Randolph, Özgül Öztürk, Dmitriy Ksenzov +34

We demonstrate a grazing-incidence x-ray platform that simultaneously records time-resolved grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray scattering (GISAXS) and grazing-incidence x-ray diff…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Probing ultrafast heating and ionization dynamics in solid density plasmas with time-resolved resonant X-ray absorption and emission

Lingen Huang, Mikhail Mishchenko, Michal Šmíd +34

Heating and ionization are among the most fundamental processes in relativistic laser--solid interactions; however, their spatiotemporal evolution remains challenging to capture ex…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 3 cited

Demonstration of full-scale spatio-temporal diagnostics of solid-density plasmas driven by an ultra-short relativistic laser pulse using an X-ray free-electron laser

Lingen Huang, Michal Šmíd, Long Yang +42

Understanding the complex plasma dynamics in ultra-intense relativistic laser-solid interactions is of fundamental importance to the applications of laser plasma-based particle acc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

High-Quality Ultra-Fast Total Scattering and Pair Distribution Function Data using an X-ray Free Electron Laser

Adam F. Sapnik, Philip A. Chater, Dean S. Keeble +48

High-quality total scattering data, a key tool for understanding atomic-scale structure in disordered materials, require stable instrumentation and access to high momentum transfer…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Formation of high-aspect-ratio nanocavity in LiF crystal using a femtosecond of x-ray FEL pulse

Sergey S. Makarov, Sergey A. Grigoryev, Vasily V. Zhakhovsky +30

Sub-picosecond optical laser processing of metals is actively utilized for modification of a heated surface layer. But for deeper modification of different materials a laser in the…

physics.plasm-ph2024

(Sub-)picosecond surface correlations of femtosecond laser excited Al-coated multilayers observed by grazing-incidence x-ray scattering

Lisa Randolph, Mohammadreza Banjafar, Toshinori Yabuuchi +22

Femtosecond high-intensity laser pulses at intensities surpassing can generate a diverse range of functional surface nanostructures. Achieving prec…

physics.plasm-ph2024

The importance of temperature-dependent collision frequency in PIC simulation on nanometric density evolution of highly-collisional strongly-coupled dense plasmas

Mohammadreza Banjafar, Lisa Randolph, Lingen Huang +17

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method is a powerful plasma simulation tool for investigating high-intensity femtosecond laser-matter interaction. However, its simulation capability at high…

hep-ph2024★ 9 cited

Bounds on heavy axions with an X-ray free electron laser

Jack W. D. Halliday, Giacomo Marocco, Konstantin A. Beyer +18

We present new exclusion bounds obtained at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser facility (EuXFEL) on axion-like particles (ALPs) in the mass range 10^{-3} eV < m_a < 10^4 eV. Ou…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

X-ray induced grain boundary formation and grain rotation in Bi2Se3

Kento Katagiri, Bernard Kozioziemski, Eric Folsom +24

Optimizing grain boundary characteristics in polycrystalline materials can improve their properties. Many processing methods have been developed for grain boundary manipulation, in…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Visualizing Plasmons and Ultrafast Kinetic Instabilities in Laser-Driven Solids using X-ray Scattering

Paweł Ordyna, Carsten Bähtz, Erik Brambrink +27

Ultra-intense lasers that ionize and accelerate electrons in solids to near the speed of light can lead to kinetic instabilities that alter the laser absorption and subsequent elec…