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20242026
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7 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

X-ray Driven Trihydrogen Formation on Silica Nanosurfaces

Samuel Sahel-Schackis, Adam Summers, Ritika Dagar +29

The trihydrogen cation () initiates the ion-molecule reactions that build molecular complexity in interstellar space. Whether its canonical formation reaction, $\ma…

physics.optics2026

Upstream Laser-based Longitudinal Enhancement of Relativistic Photoelectrons

Hao Zhang, Randy Lemons, Jack Hirschman +23

Controlling the longitudinal phase space of high-brightness relativistic electron beams is crucial for advancing a broad spectrum of charged-particle-based instrumentation and scie…

physics.app-ph2025

A Hybrid Neural Architecture: Online Attosecond X-ray Characterization

Jack Hirschman, Benjamin Mencer, Razib Obaid +2

The emergence of high-repetition-rate x-ray free-electron lasers, such as SLAC's LCLS-II, serve as our canonical example for autonomous controls that necessitate high-throughput di…

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

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-ph2025

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…