Artistic depiction of XFEL measurement with neon gas_16x9_Timing_2x.jpg (IMAGE)

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Artistic depiction of XFEL measurement with neon gas_16x9_Timing_2x.jpg

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Artistic depiction of XFEL measurement with neon gas. The inherent delay between the emission of photoelectrons and Auger electrons leads to a characteristic ellipse in the analyzed data. In principle, the position of individual data points around the ellipse can be read like the hands of a clock to reveal the precise timing of decay processes.

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(Image by Daniel Haynes and Jörg Harms/Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.)

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