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most citedModel-free Rayleigh weight from x-ray Thomson scattering measurements

21 citations · 55 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.plasm-ph2025

Spectral Deconvolution without the Deconvolution: Extracting Temperature from X-ray Thomson Scattering Spectra without the Source-and-Instrument Function

Thomas Gawne, Alina Kononov, Andrew Baczewski +7

X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) probes the dynamic structure factor of the system, but the measured spectrum is broadened by the combined source-and-instrument function (SIF) of th…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

A Momentum-Resolved X-ray Thomson Scattering Benchmark of Electronic-Response Models in Warm Dense Aluminium

Dmitrii S. Bespalov, Ulf Zastrau, Zhandos A. Moldabekov +58

The robust diagnosis of conditions generated in warm dense matter (WDM) experiments remains a persistent challenge. Here we describe the measurement of shock-compressed aluminium a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Orientational Effects in the Low Pair Continuum of Aluminium

Thomas Gawne, Zhandos A Moldabekov, Oliver S Humphries +6

We compare the predictions of the dynamic structure factor (DSF) of ambient polycrystalline aluminium from time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in the pair continuum re…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 9 cited

Applying the Liouville-Lanczos Method of Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory to Warm Dense Matter

Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Sebastian Schwalbe, Thomas Gawne +3

Ab initio modeling of dynamic structure factors (DSF) and related density response properties in the warm dense matter (WDM) regime is a challenging computational task. The DSF, co…

physics.plasm-ph2025

HEART: A New X-Ray Tracing Code for Mosaic Crystal Spectrometers

Thomas Gawne, Sebastian Schwalbe, Thomas Chuna +3

We introduce a new open-source Python x-ray tracing code for modelling Bragg diffracting mosaic crystal spectrometers: High Energy Applications Ray Tracer (HEART). HEART's high mod…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Strong geometry dependence of the X-ray Thomson Scattering Spectrum in single crystal silicon

Thomas Gawne, Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Oliver S. Humphries +17

We report on results from an experiment at the European XFEL where we measured the x-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) spectrum of single crystal silicon with ultrahigh resolution. Com…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Towards Model-free Temperature Diagnostics of Warm Dense Matter from Multiple Scattering Angles

Hannah M. Bellenbaum, Benjamin Bachmann, Dominik Kraus +9

Warm dense matter (WDM) plays an important role in astrophysical objects and technological applications, but the rigorous diagnostics of corresponding experiments is notoriously di…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 21 cited

Model-free Rayleigh weight from x-ray Thomson scattering measurements

Tobias Dornheim, Hannah M. Bellenbaum, Mandy Bethkenhagen +16

X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) has emerged as a powerful tool for the diagnostics of matter under extreme conditions. In principle, it gives one access to important system paramet…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Effects of Mosaic Crystal Instrument Functions on X-ray Thomson Scattering Diagnostics

Thomas Gawne, Hannah Bellenbaum, Luke B. Fletcher +36

Mosaic crystals, with their high integrated reflectivities, are widely-employed in spectrometers used to diagnose high energy density systems. X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) has e…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 5 cited

Ultrafast Heating Induced Suppression of -band Dominance in the Electronic Excitation Spectrum of Cuprum

Zhandos Moldabekov, Thomas D. Gawne, Sebastian Schwalbe +3

The combination of isochoric heating of solids by free electron lasers (FEL) and in situ diagnostics by X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) allows for measurements of material properti…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 1 cited

Ultrahigh Resolution X-ray Thomson Scattering Measurements at the European XFEL

Thomas Gawne, Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Oliver S. Humphries +18

Using a novel ultrahigh resolution (eV) setup to measure electronic features in x-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) experiments at the European XFEL in Germany, we have…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 6 cited

Excitation signatures of isochorically heated electrons in solids at finite wavenumber explored from first principles

Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Thomas D. Gawne, Sebastian Schwalbe +3

Ultrafast heating of solids with modern X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) leads to a unique set of conditions that is characterized by the simultaneous presence of heated electron…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 11 cited

Evidence of free-bound transitions in warm dense matter and their impact on equation-of-state measurements

Maximilian P. Böhme, Luke B. Fletcher, Tilo Döppner +8

Warm dense matter (WDM) is now routinely created and probed in laboratories around the world, providing unprecedented insights into conditions achieved in stellar atmospheres, plan…

physics.plasm-ph2023

X-ray Thomson scattering absolute intensity from the f-sum rule in the imaginary-time domain

Tobias Dornheim, Tilo Döppner, Andrew D. Baczewski +10

We present a formally exact and simulation-free approach for the normalization of X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) spectra based on the f-sum rule of the imaginary-time correlation…