Femtosecond X-ray-induced explosion of C60 at extreme intensity
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Understanding molecular femtosecond dynamics under intense X-ray exposure is critical to progress in biomolecular imaging and matter under extreme conditions. Imaging viruses and proteins at an atomic spatial scale and on the time scale of atomic motion requires rigorous, quantitative understanding of dynamical effects of intense X-ray exposure. Here we present an experimental and theoretical study of C60 molecules interacting with intense X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser, revealing the influence of processes not previously reported. Our work illustrates the successful use of classical mechanics to describe all moving particles in C60, an approach that scales well to larger systems, for example, biomolecules. Comparisons of the model with experimental data on C60 ion fragmentation show excellent agreement under a variety of laser conditions. The results indicate that this modelling is applicable for X-ray interactions with any extended system, even at higher X-ray dose rates expected with future light sources.
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- Murphy, B. F., Osipov, T., Jurek, Z., Fang, L., Son, S.-K., Mucke, M., Eland, J. H. D., Zhaunerchyk, V., Feifel, R., Avaldi, L., Bolognesi, P., Bostedt, C., Bozek, J. D., Grilj, J., Guehr, M., Frasinski, L. J., Glownia, J., Ha, D. T., Hoffmann, K., Kukk, E., McFarland, B. K., Miron, C., Sistrunk, E., Squibb, R. J., Ueda, K., Santra, R., & Berrah, N.
- Affiliations
- Western Michigan University (US)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE)
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Institute of Inorganic Methodologies and Plasmas (IT)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Turku (FI)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Synchrotron SOLEIL (FR)
- Tohoku University (JP)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- University of Connecticut (US)
- Corresponding author
- Berrah, N.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2014-06-27
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 4281-4281
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1987296779
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 46
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- 9.94
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy (DEFG0292ER14299, FG02-92ER14299, DE‐FG02‐)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
- Vetenskapsrådet
- Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging
- Office of Science
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I032517/1, EP/C530772/2, EP/I032517)
- Basic Energy Sciences (DE-FG02)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Radiation › Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Radiation › X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
- Keywords
- C60, molecular fragmentation, free-electron laser, femtosecond X-ray pulses, classical molecular dynamics, quantum-classical hybrid models, biomolecular imaging, X-ray dose rate, extreme conditions
- MeSH terms
- Explosions, Lasers, X-Rays, Fullerenes, Molecular Dynamics Simulation
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