title: Exploring Mbar shock conditions and isochorically heated aluminum at the Matter in Extreme Conditions end station of the Linac Coherent Light Source (invited).
abstract: Recent experiments performed at the Matter in Extreme Conditions end station of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) have demonstrated the first spectrally resolved measurements of plasmons from isochorically heated aluminum. The experiments have been performed using a seeded 8-keV x-ray laser beam as a pump and probe to both volumetrically heat and scatter x-rays from aluminum. Collective x-ray Thomson scattering spectra show a well-resolved plasmon feature that is down-shifted in energy by 19 eV. In addition, Mbar shock pressures from laser-compressed aluminum foils using velocity interferometer system for any reflector have been measured. The combination of experiments fully demonstrates the possibility to perform warm dense matter studies at the LCLS with unprecedented accuracy and precision.
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94709, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barbrel
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Galtier
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nagler
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Döppner
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: LePape
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pak
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Turnbull
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: White
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gregori
authors.affiliation: General Atomics, San Diego, California 87544, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94709, USA.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Falcone
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Heimann
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Zastrau
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Hastings
authors.affiliation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Glenzer