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6 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Generative Modeling Enables Molecular Structure Retrieval from Coulomb Explosion Imaging

Xiang Li, Till Jahnke, Rebecca Boll +12

Capturing the structural changes that molecules undergo during chemical reactions in real space and time is a long-standing dream and an essential prerequisite for understanding an…

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.acc-ph2026

Advanced Control of Electron Beams: Tailoring X-ray Production with Programmable Laser Shaping

Jack Hirschman, Randy Lemons, Hao Zhang +23

Leveraging the full scientific capabilities of next-generation high-repetition-rate free-electron lasers requires programmable control over electron-beam properties at their source…

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.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

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…