Ion acceleration driven by superintense laser pulses is attracting an impressive and steadily
increasing effort. Motivations can be found in the applicative potential and in the perspective …

Free-electron lasers produce extremely brief, coherent, and bright laser-like photon pulses
that allow to image matter at atomic resolution and at timescales faster than the …

An era of exploring the interactions of high-intensity, hard X-rays with matter has begun with
the start-up of a hard-X-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) …

Accurate x-ray scattering techniques to measure the physical properties of dense plasmas
have been developed for applications in high energy density physics. This class of …

X-ray free-electron lasers provide unique opportunities for exploring ultrafast dynamics and
for imaging the structures of complex systems. Understanding the response of individual …

Energetic ions have been observed since the very first laser-plasma experiments. Their
origin was found to be the charge separation of electrons heated by thelaser, which transfers …

Extremely intense and ultrafast X-ray pulses from free-electron lasers offer unique
opportunities to study fundamental aspects of complex transient phenomena in materials …

FERMI@ Elettra comprises two free electron lasers (FELs) that will generate short pulses
(τ∼ 25–200 fs) of highly coherent radiation in the XUV and soft x-ray region. The use of …

We present the first x-ray scattering measurements of the state of compression and heating
in laser irradiated solid beryllium. The scattered spectra at two different angles show …

In this paper, we present a novel theoretical approach, which allows the study of
nonequilibrium dynamics of both electrons and atoms/ions within free-electron laser excited …