XFEL Imaging Techniques for High Energy Density and Inertial Fusion Energy Research at HED-HiBEF

Authors: Alejandro Laso Garcia, Mikhail Mishchenko, Victorien Bouffetier, Gabriel Perez-Callejo, Karen Appel, Alexey Arefiev, Carsten Baehtz, Erik Brambrink, Mihail Cernaianu, Domenico Doria, Tobias Dornheim, Gillis M. Dyer, Nicolas Fefeu, Eric Galtier, Thomas Gawne, Petru V. Ghenuche, Sebastian Goede, Johannes Hagemann, Marie-Luise Herbert, Hauke Höppner, Lingen Huang, Oliver Humphries, Mae Jones, Dimitri Khaghani, Thomas Kluge, Jayanath Koliyadu, Dominik Kraus, Hae Ja Lee, Julian Lütgert, Mikako Makita, Jean-Paul Naedler, Bob Nagler, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Quynh Nguyen, Alexander Pelka, Thomas R. Preston, Chong Bing Qu, Sripati V. Rahul, Lisa Randolph, Ronald Redmer, Martin Rehwald, Hans G. Rinderknecht, Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez, Joao J. Santos, Ulrich Schramm, Michal Smid, Cornelius Strohm, Jergus Strucka, Minxue Tang, Patrik Vagovic, Milenko Vescovi, Long Yang, Karl Zeil, Ulf Zastrau, Thomas E. Cowan, Toma Toncian

arXiv: 2601.14028v1 - DOI (physics.plasm-ph)
24 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to PPCF Special Issue Featuring the Plenary and Invited Talks from the 51st EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 7 - 11 July 2025
License: CC BY 4.0

Abstract: The imaging platform developed at the High Energy Density - Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HED-HiBEF) instrument at the European XFEL and its applications to high energy density and fusion related research are presented. The platform combines the XFEL beam with the high-intensity short-pulse laser ReLaX and the high-energy nanosecond-pulse laser DiPOLE-100X. The spatial resolution is better than 500 nm and the temporal resolution of the order of 50 fs. We show examples of blast waves and converging cylindrical shocks in aluminium, resonant absorption measurements of specific charged states in copper with ReLaX and planar shocks in polystyrene material generated by DiPOLE-100X. We also discuss the possibilities introduced by combining this imaging platform with a kJ-class laser.

Submitted to arXiv on 20 Jan. 2026

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