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most citedImaging valence electron rearrangement in a chemical reaction using hard X-ray scattering

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physics.chem-ph2026

Elucidating Norrish Type-I reactive pathways by ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Martin Graßl, Pablo Unzueta, Andreas E. Hillers-Bendtsen +20

Norrish type I reactions selectively cleave carbon-carbon bonds directly adjacent to carbonyl groups. Despite their broad use in combination with aromatic carbonyls for additive ma…

physics.optics2025

Ray-tracing image simulations of transparent objects with complex shape and inhomogeneous refractive index

Armin Kalita, Bryan Oller, Thomas Paula +18

Optical images of transparent three-dimensional objects can be different from a replica of the object's cross section in the image plane due to refraction at the surface or in the…

physics.optics2025

Nonlinear reversal of photo-excitation on the attosecond time scale improves ultrafast x-ray diffraction images

Anatoli Ulmer, Phay J. Ho, Bruno Langbehn +28

The advent of isolated and intense sub-femtosecond X-ray pulses enables tracking of quantummechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids. The combination of X-ray spectros…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 10 cited

Imaging valence electron rearrangement in a chemical reaction using hard X-ray scattering

Ian Gabalski, Alice Green, Philipp Lenzen +24

We have observed the signatures of valence electron rearrangement in photoexcited ammonia using ultrafast hard X-ray scattering. Time-resolved X-ray scattering is a powerful tool f…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Imaging the Photochemistry of Cyclobutanone using Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Experimental Results

A. E. Green, Y. Liu, F. Allum +27

We investigated the ultrafast structural dynamics of cyclobutanone following photoexcitation at nm using gas-phase megaelectronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction. Our inve…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 3 cited

Attosecond Coherent Electron Motion in a Photoionized Aromatic Molecule

Taran Driver, Zhaoheng Guo, Erik Isele +50

In molecular systems, the ultrafast motion of electrons initiates the process of chemical change. Tracking this electronic motion across molecules requires coupling attosecond time…

physics.acc-ph2024

Experimental generation of extreme electron beams for advanced accelerator applications

Claudio Emma, Nathan Majernik, Kelly Swanson +13

In this Letter we report on the experimental generation of high energy (10 GeV), ultra-short (fs-duration), ultra-high current (0.1 MA), petawatt peak power electron beams in a par…

physics.ins-det2024

Design and Performance of a Magnetic Bottle Electron Spectrometer for High-Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Kurtis Borne, Jordan T ONeal, Jun Wang +19

We describe the design and performance of a magnetic bottle electron spectrometer~(MBES) for high-energy electron spectroscopy. Our design features a ~m long electron drif…

physics.acc-ph2024

"Beam `a la carte": laser heater shaping for attosecond pulses in a multiplexed x-ray free-electron laser

Siqi Li, Zhen Zhang, Shawn Alverson +19

Electron beam shaping allows the control of the temporal properties of x-ray free-electron laser pulses from femtosecond to attosecond timescales. Here we demonstrate the use of a…

physics.acc-ph2024

Spectrotemporal shaping of attosecond x-ray pulses with a fresh-slice free-electron laser

River R. Robles, Kirk A. Larsen, David Cesar +14

We propose a scheme allowing coherent shaping, i.e., controlling both the amplitude and phase, of attosecond x-ray pulses at free-electron lasers. We show that by seeding an FEL wi…

physics.chem-ph2024

Attosecond X-ray Core-level Chronoscopy of Aromatic Molecules

Jia-Bao Ji, Zhaoheng Guo, Taran Driver +32

Attosecond photoemission or photoionization delays are a unique probe of the structure and the electronic dynamics of matter. However, spectral congestion and spatial delocalizatio…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 1 cited

Experimental Demonstration of Attosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy with an X-ray Free-Electron Laser

Zhaoheng Guo, Taran Driver, Sandra Beauvarlet +47

Pump-probe experiments with sub-femtosecond resolution are the key to understanding electronic dynamics in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate the generation and control of sub-fe…

physics.acc-ph2024

Wavelength scaling and multi-color operation of a plasma driven attosecond X-ray source via harmonic generation

Rafi Hessami, Jenny Morgan, River Robles +3

The generation of high power coherent soft X-ray pulses of sub-100 as duration and 10 nm wavelength using beams from a GeV energy plasma wakefield accelerator has been recently inv…