Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Astrophysical objects in the laboratory

by Ulf Zastrau (European XFEL Schenefeld, Germany)

Friday 23 Jun 2017, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

CFEL, Bldg. 99 (DESY Hamburg)

The advent of the first free-electron X-ray lasers (XFELs), FLASH in 2004 and LCLS in 2009, may prove to be the most profound development since the invention of the laser and, equally, the synchrotron. High-Energy Density (HED) science at European XFEL will soon allow scientists to reproduce and study matter commonly found in planets in - and beyond - our solar system. The talk will focus on how physicists will use XFELs to gain knowledge about the interior of planets such as Earth and Jupiter.