Femtosecond electronic structure response to high intensity XFEL pulses probed by iron X-ray emission spectroscopy
Roberto Alonso-Mori1, Dimosthenis Sokaras2, Marco Cammarata3
1SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. robertoa@slac.stanford.edu.
Abstract:
We report the time-resolved femtosecond evolution of the K-shell X-ray emission spectra of iron during high intensity illumination of X-rays in a micron-sized focused hard X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) beam. Detailed pulse length dependent measurements revealed that rapid spectral energy shift and broadening started within the first 10 fs of the X-ray illumination at intensity levels between 1017 and 1018 W cm-2. We attribute these spectral changes to the rapid evolution of high-density photoelectron mediated secondary collisional ionization processes upon the absorption of the incident XFEL radiation. These fast electronic processes, occurring at timescales well within the typical XFEL pulse durations (i.e., tens of fs), set the boundary conditions of the pulse intensity and sample parameters where the widely-accepted 'probe-before-destroy' measurement strategy can be adopted for electronic-structure related XFEL experiments.
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