Femtosecond gas-phase mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction

Shen, X.; Nunes, J. P.  F.; Yang, J.; Jobe, R. K.; Li, R. K.; Lin, Ming-Fu; Moore, B.; Niebuhr, M.; Weathersby, S. P.; Wolf, T. J.  A.; Yoneda, C.; Guehr, Markus; Centurion, Martin; Wang, X. J.

doi:10.1063/1.5120864

Title: Femtosecond gas-phase mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction

Journal Article · Tue Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Structural Dynamics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5120864· OSTI ID:1572204

Shen, X. ^[1];

^[2]; Yang, J. ^[1]; Jobe, R. K. ^[1]; Li, R. K. ^[3]; Lin, Ming-Fu ^[1]; Moore, B. ^[2];

^[4]; Weathersby, S. P. ^[1];

^[1]; Yoneda, C. ^[1]; Guehr, Markus ^[4]; Centurion, Martin ^[2]; Wang, X. J. ^[1]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
Universität Potsdam (Germany)

The development of ultrafast gas electron diffraction with non-relativistic electrons has enabled determination of molecular structures with atomic spatial resolution. It has, however, been challenging to break the picosecond temporal resolution barrier and achieve the goal that has long been envisioned – making space- and-time resolved molecular movies of chemical reaction in the gas-phase. Recently, an ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) apparatus using mega-electron-volt (MeV) electrons was developed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for imaging ultrafast structural dynamics of molecules in the gas phase. The SLAC gas-phase MeV UED has achieved 70 fs root-mean-square temporal resolution, 0.63 Å spatial resolution, and 0.22 Å–1 reciprocal-space resolution. Such high spatial-temporal resolution has enabled the capturing of real-time molecular movies of fundamental photochemical mechanisms, such as chemical bond breaking, ring opening, and a nuclear wave packet crossing a conical intersection. In this paper, the design that enables the high spatial-temporal resolution of the SLAC gas phase MeV UED is presented. The compact design of the differential pump section of the SLAC gas phase MeV UED realized five orders-of-magnitude vacuum isolation between the electron source and gas sample chamber. The spatial resolution, temporal resolution and long-term stability of the apparatus are systematically characterized.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; SC0014170

OSTI ID:: 1572204

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1570490; OSTI ID: 1698037

Report Number(s):: DOE-SLAC-00515; DOE-Nebraska-Lincoln-14170; TRN: US2100318

Journal Information:: Structural Dynamics, Vol. 6, Issue 5; Conference: 4. Femtosecond Electron Imaging and Spectroscopy (FEIS 4), Lincoln, NE (United States), 13-15 May 2019; ISSN 2329-7778

Publisher:: American Crystallographic Association/AIPCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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