TY - JOUR A1 - Schreck, Simon A1 - Beye, Martin A1 - Sellberg, Jonas A. A1 - McQueen, Trevor A1 - Laksmono, Hartawan A1 - Kennedy, Brian A1 - Eckert, Sebastian A1 - Schlesinger, Daniel A1 - Nordlund, Dennis A1 - Ogasawara, Hirohito A1 - Sierra, Raymond G. A1 - Segtnan, Vegard H. A1 - Kubicek, Katharina A1 - Schlotter, William F. A1 - Dakovski, Georgi L. A1 - Moeller, Stefan P. A1 - Bergmann, Uwe A1 - Techert, Simone A1 - Pettersson, Lars G. M. A1 - Wernet, Philippe A1 - Bogan, Michael J. A1 - Harada, Yoshihisa A1 - Nilsson, Anders A1 - Föhlisch, Alexander T1 - Reabsorption of soft x-ray emission at high x-ray free-electron laserfluences T2 - Physical review letters N2 - We report on oxygen K-edge soft x-ray emission spectroscopy from a liquid water jet at the Linac Coherent Light Source. We observe significant changes in the spectral content when tuning over a wide range of incident x-ray fluences. In addition the total emission yield decreases at high fluences. These modifications result from reabsorption of x-ray emission by valence-excited molecules generated by the Auger cascade. Our observations have major implications for future x-ray emission studies at intense x-ray sources. We highlight the importance of the x-ray pulse length with respect to the core-hole lifetime. Y1 - 2014 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37489 SN - 0031-9007 SN - 1079-7114 VL - 113 IS - 15 PB - American Physical Society CY - College Park ER -