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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.245003
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- LCLS
- LCLS, Stanford University through Stanford Institute for Materials Energy Sciences (SIMES)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), University of Hamburg through BMBF [FSP 301]
- Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL)
- U.S. DOE Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC03-76SF00098]
- SSAA program [DE-FG52-06NA26212]
- UK EPSRC [EP/F020449/1, EP/H035877/1, EP/G007187/1]
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) [FSP 301]
- [LA08024]
- [ME10046]
- [CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0061]
- [CZ.1.07/2.3.00/483/20.0087]
- [CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0057]
- [P108/11/1312]
- [P205/11/0571]
- [P208/10/2302]
- [M100101221]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/H035877/1, EP/G007187/1, EP/F020449/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Ministry of Education, Science & Technology (MoST), Republic of Korea [gist-11] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- EPSRC [EP/F020449/1, EP/H035877/1, EP/G007187/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The x-ray intensities made available by x-ray free electron lasers (FEL) open up new x-ray matter interaction channels not accessible with previous sources. We report here on the resonant generation of K alpha emission, that is to say the production of copious K alpha radiation by tuning the x-ray FEL pulse to photon energies below that of the K edge of a solid aluminum sample. The sequential absorption of multiple photons in the same atom during the 80 fs pulse, with photons creating L-shell holes and then one resonantly exciting a K-shell electron into one of these holes, opens up a channel for the K alpha production, as well as the absorption of further photons. We demonstrate rich spectra of such channels, and investigate the emission produced by tuning the FEL energy to the K-L transitions of those highly charged ions that have transition energies below the K edge of the cold material. The spectra are sensitive to x-ray intensity dependent opacity effects, with ions containing L-shell holes readily reabsorbing the K alpha radiation.
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