Time Resolved Relativistic Electron Diffraction
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We report on the use of a ultrashort high brightness relativistic beam from the UCLA Pegasus laboratory RF photoinjector source for probing matter transformation at the atomic scale with sub-100 fs time resolution. The high accelerating gradient and the relativistic electron energy allow to pack more than 107 electrons in less than 100 fs bunch length, enabling the study of irreversible ultrafast phenomena by single-shot diffraction patterns. The experimental setup, and the preliminary results from the first ever relativistic electron diffraction time-resolved study are discussed.
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