Free-electron laser facilities enable new applications in the field of high-pressure research including planetary materials. The European x-ray Free Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Hamburg, Germany will start user operation in 2017 and will provide photon energies of up to 25 keV. The high-energy density science instrument (HED) is one of the six baseline instruments at the European XFEL. It is dedicated to the study of dense material at strong excitation in a temperature range from eV to keV and pressures >100 GPa which is equivalent to an energy density >100 J mm−3. It will enable studying structural and electronic properties of excited states with hard x-rays. The instrument is currently in its technical design phase and first user experiments are foreseen for summer 2017. In this contribution, we present the x-ray instrumentation and foreseen x-ray techniques at HED and concentrate on prototype hard-condensed matter experiments in the field of planetary research as proposed during recent user consortium meetings for this instrument. These include quasi-isentropic (ramped) compression and shock compression experiments.


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    Title :

    Studying planetary matter using intense x-ray pulses


    Contributors:
    Appel, K. (author) / Nakatsutsumi, M. (author) / Pelka, A. (author) / Priebe, G. (author) / Thorpe, I. (author) / Tschentscher, Th (author)

    Published in:

    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ; 57 , 1 ; 014003/1-014003/5


    Publication date :

    2015


    Size :

    5 Seiten, 18 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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