Development of slurry targets for high repetition-rate XFEL experiments
Abstract
Combining an x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) with high power laser drivers enables the study of phase transitions, equation-of-state, grain growth, strength, and transformation pathways as a function of pressure to 100s GPa along different thermodynamic compression paths. Future high-repetition rate laser operation will enable data to be accumulated at >1 Hz which poses a number of experimental challenges including the need to rapidly replenish the target. Here, we present a combined shock-compression and X-ray diffraction study on vol% epoxy(50)-crystalline grains(50) (slurry) targets, which can be fashioned into extruded ribbons for high repetition-rate operation. For shock-loaded NaCl-slurry samples, we observe pressure, density and temperature states within the embedded NaCl grains consistent with observations for shock-compressed single-crystal NaCl.
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@article{arxiv.2201.04254,
title = {Development of slurry targets for high repetition-rate XFEL experiments},
author = {Raymond F. Smith and Vinay Rastogi and Amy E. Lazicki and Martin G. Gorman and Richard Briggs and Amy L. Coleman and Carol Davis and Saransh Singh and David McGonegle and Samantha M. Clarke and Travis Volz and Trevor Hutchinson and Christopher McGuire and Dayne E. Fratanduono and Damian C. Swift and Eric Folsom and Cynthia A. Bolme and Arianna E. Gleason and Federica Coppari and Hae Ja Lee and Bob Nagler and Eric Cunningham and Eduardo Granados and Phil Heimann and Richard G. Kraus and Robert E. Rudd and Thomas S. Duffy and Jon H. Eggert and June K. Wicks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04254},
year = {2022}
}
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12 pages, 9 figures