Single X-ray pulse reveals plasma nanostructures across scales with one camera
Understanding instabilities and turbulence in plasmas is one of the key challenges across a wide range of plasma research fields, including nuclear fusion, astrophysics and laser-plasma physics.
Understanding instabilities and turbulence in plasmas is one of the key challenges across a wide range of plasma research fields, including nuclear fusion, astrophysics and laser-plasma physics.
The short version
- In plasmas, slight disturbances can grow due to instabilities, and energy is transferred between structures of various sizes due to turbulence.
- These phenomena give rise to structures ranging from very small to large, which significantly influence the overall motion and energy flow of the plasma.
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What happened
The findings are published in the journal Communications Physics . This is the first time in the world that structures across such a wide range of spatial scales have been measured simultaneously using a single X-ray pulse and a single camera.
Why it matters
In conventional small-angle X-ray scattering, the central portion of the beam is shielded by a beam stop to protect the camera from the intense X-ray beam, and the small-angle diffraction patterns appearing around it are measured.
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