https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2004-00033-3
Dynamics in a cluster under the influence of intense femtosecond hard X-ray pulses
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, POB 49, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
Corresponding author: a jurek@szfki.hu
Received:
22
September
2003
Published online:
9
March
2004
In this paper we examine the behavior of small cluster of atoms in a short (10–50 fs) very intense hard X-ray (10 keV) pulse. We use numerical modeling based on the non-relativistic classical equation of motion. Quantum processes are taken into account by the respective cross-sections. We show that there is a Coulomb explosion, which has a different dynamics than one finds in classical laser driven cluster explosions. We discuss the consequences of our results to single molecule imaging by the free electron laser pulses.
PACS: 61.80.-x – Physical radiation effects, radiation damage / 36.40.-c – Atomic and molecular clusters / 61.46.+w – Nanoscale materials: clusters, nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanocrystals
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2004
