Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

LCLS proposal preparation workshop for AMO and other soft X-ray experiments

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Monday, 2 June 2008 – Building 048/Redwood Room
08:00 – 08:30 Coffee and pastries
08:30 – 08:35 Welcome (J.R. Schneider, LCLS)
08:35 – 09:30 Status of LCLS, beamlines and instruments (J. Arthur, LCLS)
09:30 – 11:00 AMO instrument and its science drivers (J. Bozek, LCLS)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Update on planned instrument for Soft X-ray Research (SXR) (P. Heimann, ALS)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch (on your own)
13:30 – 14:30 Update from the AMO Instrument Team (L. DiMauro, OSU and N. Berrah, WMU)
14:30 – 15:30 LCLS access policy, proposal submission process (J.R. Schneider, LCLS)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00 LCLS Tour
19:00 Dinner in the SLAC Cafeteria
Tuesday, 3 June 2008 – Building 048/Redwood Room
08:00 – 08:30 Coffee and pastries
08:30 – 10:30 Experience from experiments at SPPS, FLASH and high power laboratory based lasers *
  • High power laser applications (T. Ditmire, UT-Austin)
  • Pump-probe experiments (D. Fritz, LCLS)
  • Reaction microscope and EBIT applications (J. Ullrich, MPI Heidelberg)
  • Photoemission and X-ray emission experiments (A. Foehlisch, University of Hamburg)
  • Absorption spectroscopy ( Y. Acremann, PULSE)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Open slot for short presentation of research projects of individual investigators or collaborations
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (on your own)
13:30 – 15:00 Discussion organized by Team Leaders of AMO Instrument Team (L. DiMauro and N. Berrah)
15:00 End of meeting

* Speakers concentrate on explaining the technical aspects of the experiments with the goal to make the audience aware of the difference in doing experiments at storage ring facility or laboratory based lasers