Small rare gas clusters in soft X-ray pulses

Ch. Siedschlag; J. M. Rost

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.043402

Small rare gas clusters in soft X-ray pulses

Atomic and Molecular Clusters 2009-11-10 v2

Authors: Ch. Siedschlag , J. M. Rost

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Abstract

We develop a microscopic model for the interaction of small rare gas clusters with soft X-ray radiation. It is shown that, while the overall charging of the clusters is rather low, unexpectedly high atomic charge states can arise due to charge imbalances inside the cluster. The mechanism does not require unusually high absorption rates, and the heating can be described by standard inverse bremsstrahlung formulae.

Keywords

atomic clusters and nuclear clustering x-ray emission from galaxies galaxy clusters

Cite

@article{arxiv.physics/0310123,
  title  = {Small rare gas clusters in soft X-ray pulses},
  author = {Ch. Siedschlag and J. M. Rost},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0310123},
  year   = {2009}
}