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X-ray & ultrafast science

First microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized.

This illustration shows how an ultrabright X-ray laser pulse (orange beam) vaporizes part of a liquid jet (blue), creating umbrella-shaped films of liquid and sending shock waves through the jet (bright stripes at top and bottom). 

 

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First microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s X-ray free-electron laser LCLS.