TY - JOUR AU - Zastrau, U. AU - Sperling, P. AU - Harmand, M. AU - Becker, A. AU - Bornath, T. AU - Bredow, R. AU - Dziarzhytski, S. AU - Fennel, T. AU - Fletcher, L. B. AU - Förster, E. AU - Göde, S. AU - Gregori, G. AU - Hilbert, V. AU - Hochhaus, D. AU - Holst, B. AU - Laarmann, T. AU - Lee, H. J. AU - Ma, T. AU - Mithen, J. P. AU - Mitzner, R. AU - Murphy, C. D. AU - Nakatsutsumi, M. AU - Neumayer, P. AU - Przystawik, A. AU - Roling, S. AU - Schulz, M. AU - Siemer, B. AU - Skruszewicz, S. AU - Tiggesbäumker, J. AU - Toleikis, S. AU - Tschentscher, T. AU - White, T. AU - Wöstmann, M. AU - Zacharias, H. AU - Döppner, T. AU - Glenzer, S. H. AU - Redmer, R. TI - Resolving Ultrafast Heating of Dense Cryogenic Hydrogen JO - Physical review letters VL - 112 IS - 10 SN - 1079-7114 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - DESY-2014-02703 SP - 105002 PY - 2014 AB - We report on the dynamics of ultrafast heating in cryogenic hydrogen initiated by a ≲300 fs, 92 eV free electron laser x-ray burst. The rise of the x-ray scattering amplitude from a second x-ray pulse probes the transition from dense cryogenic molecular hydrogen to a nearly uncorrelated plasmalike structure, indicating an electron-ion equilibration time of ∼0.9 ps. The rise time agrees with radiation hydrodynamics simulations based on a conductivity model for partially ionized plasma that is validated by two-temperature density-functional theory LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000332690300012 C6 - pmid:24679300 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.105002 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/168880 ER -