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New opportunity to investigate physico-chemical phenomena: time-resolved X-ray and IR concurrent analysis

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The characterization of both collective and individual excitations occurring in condensed matter and biological systems are of great interests for both fundamental and technological researches. New time-resolved and concurrent approaches are required to characterize complex systems where physical–chemical phenomena occur due to the interplay between localized and delocalized electrons, and in particular to characterize systems in non-equilibrium conditions. In this contribution, we present an optical layout that may take advantage of the high brilliance and the naturally wide spectral-distribution of the synchrotron radiation emission covering the range from the IR to the hard X-ray region. Thanks to the brilliance and the power associated to third generation storage rings with a conceptual new beamline design combining an IR and an X-ray beam, it will be possible to investigate dynamical processes with a time resolution down to the sub-millisecond regime, resolving plenty of correlated structural, electronic and vibrational phenomena. To demonstrate the unique advantages of this time-resolved concurrent experimental approach, among the many existing scientific cases, a few interesting but unresolved scientific cases are reviewed and potential applications of the new analytical tool are envisaged.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Italian Ministry Foreign Affairs in the framework of the 12th Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Italian Republic and the People’s Republic of China. A special thanks is devoted to Manuel Sanchez del Rio, Qingxi Yuan, Lingyun Tang, Zeming Qi, Alessio Bocci and Paul Dumas for many useful discussions.

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  1. Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, China

    Wei Xu & Ziyu Wu

  2. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Via E. Fermi 40, Frascati, 00044, Rome, Italy

    Wei Xu, Augusto Marcelli & Dariush Hampai

  3. Laboratorio di Scienza dei Materiali e Nanotecnologie (LMNT), Università di Sassari, CR-INSTM, CNBS, Palazzo Pou Salit, Piazza Duomo 6, Alghero, 07041, Sassari, Italy

    Luca Malfatti & Plinio Innocenzi

  4. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronenspeicherring BESSY II, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Ulrich Schade

  5. NSRL, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Augusto Marcelli & Ziyu Wu

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Xu, W., Marcelli, A., Hampai, D. et al. New opportunity to investigate physico-chemical phenomena: time-resolved X-ray and IR concurrent analysis. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 22 (Suppl 1), 59–79 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-011-0145-1

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