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Title: Probing dynamics in colloidal crystals with pump-probe experiments at LCLS: Methodology and analysis

Journal Article · · Applied Sciences
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/app7050519· OSTI ID:1373190
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  1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  2. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); National Research Tomsk Polytechnic Univ. (TPU), Tomsk (Russia)
  3. Utrecht Univ., Utrecht (The Netherlands); Univ. of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany)
  4. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  5. Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
  6. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld (Germany)
  7. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  8. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld (Germany)
  9. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
  10. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography RAS, Moscow (Russia)
  11. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); National Research Nuclear Univ. MEPhI, Moscow (Russia)

We present results of the studies of dynamics in colloidal crystals performed by pump-probe experiments using an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). Colloidal crystals were pumped with an infrared laser at a wavelength of 800 nm with varying power and probed by XFEL pulses at an energy of 8 keV with a time delay up to 1000 ps. The positions of the Bragg peaks, and their radial and azimuthal widths were analyzed as a function of the time delay. The spectral analysis of the data did not reveal significant enhancement of frequencies expected in this experiment. As a result, this allowed us to conclude that the amplitude of vibrational modes excited in colloidal crystals was less than the systematic error caused by the noise level.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1373190
Journal Information:
Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 6; ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher:
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Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 4 works
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