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Title: LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments:Conceptual Design Report

Abstract

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), along with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is constructing a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) facility, which will operate in the wavelength range 1.5 nm - 0.15 nm. This FEL, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), utilizes the SLAC linac and will produce sub-picosecond pulses of short wavelength X-rays with very high peak brightness and almost complete transverse coherence. The final one-third of the SLAC linac will be used as the source of electrons for the LCLS. The high energy electrons will be transported across the SLAC Research Yard, into a tunnel which will house a long undulator. In passing through the undulator, the electrons will be bunched by the force of their own synchrotron radiation and produce an intense, monochromatic, spatially coherent beam of X-rays. By varying the electron energy, the FEL X-ray wavelength will be tunable from 1.5 nm to 0.15 nm. The LCLS will include two experimental halls as well as X-ray optics and infrastructure necessary to create a facility that can be developed for research in a variety of disciplines such as atomic physics, materials science, plasma physics andmore » biosciences. This Conceptual Design Report, the authors believe, confirms the feasibility of designing and constructing three X-ray instruments in order to exploit the unique scientific capability of this new LCLS facility. The technical objective of the LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments (LUSI) project is to design, build, and install at the LCLS three hard X-ray instruments that will complement the initial instrument included in the LCLS construction. As the science programs advance and new technological challenges appear, instrumentation needs to be developed and ready to conquer these new opportunities. The LCLS instrument concepts have been developed in close consultation with the scientific community through a series of workshops team meetings and focused reviews. In particular, the LUSI project instruments have been identified as meeting the most urgent needs of the scientific community based on the advice of the LCLS Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) in response to an open call for letters of intent (LOI) from the breadth of the scientific community.« less

Authors:
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
  4. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  5. Lund Univ. (Sweden). Lund Inst. of Technology (LTH)
  6. Boston Univ., MA (United States)
  7. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  8. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  9. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
918010
Report Number(s):
SLAC-R-852
TRN: US0805207
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ATOMIC PHYSICS; DESIGN; ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY; LIGHT SOURCES; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; LOS ANGELES; STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; Instrumentation, Other,MATSCI, XFEL

Citation Formats

Arthur, J., Boutet, S., Castagna, J-C., Chapman, H., Feng, Y., Foyt, W., Fritz, D. M., Gaffney, K. J., Gruebel, G., Hajdu, J., Hastings, J. B., Kurita, N., Larsson, J., Ludwig, K., Messerschmidt, M., Miao, J., Reis, D. A., Robert, A., Stephenson, G. B., Tschentscher, Th., and van Bakel, N. LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments:Conceptual Design Report. United States: N. p., 2007. Web. doi:10.2172/918010.
Arthur, J., Boutet, S., Castagna, J-C., Chapman, H., Feng, Y., Foyt, W., Fritz, D. M., Gaffney, K. J., Gruebel, G., Hajdu, J., Hastings, J. B., Kurita, N., Larsson, J., Ludwig, K., Messerschmidt, M., Miao, J., Reis, D. A., Robert, A., Stephenson, G. B., Tschentscher, Th., & van Bakel, N. LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments:Conceptual Design Report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/918010
Arthur, J., Boutet, S., Castagna, J-C., Chapman, H., Feng, Y., Foyt, W., Fritz, D. M., Gaffney, K. J., Gruebel, G., Hajdu, J., Hastings, J. B., Kurita, N., Larsson, J., Ludwig, K., Messerschmidt, M., Miao, J., Reis, D. A., Robert, A., Stephenson, G. B., Tschentscher, Th., and van Bakel, N. 2007. "LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments:Conceptual Design Report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/918010. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/918010.
@article{osti_918010,
title = {LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments:Conceptual Design Report},
author = {Arthur, J. and Boutet, S. and Castagna, J-C. and Chapman, H. and Feng, Y. and Foyt, W. and Fritz, D. M. and Gaffney, K. J. and Gruebel, G. and Hajdu, J. and Hastings, J. B. and Kurita, N. and Larsson, J. and Ludwig, K. and Messerschmidt, M. and Miao, J. and Reis, D. A. and Robert, A. and Stephenson, G. B. and Tschentscher, Th. and van Bakel, N.},
abstractNote = {The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), along with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is constructing a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) facility, which will operate in the wavelength range 1.5 nm - 0.15 nm. This FEL, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), utilizes the SLAC linac and will produce sub-picosecond pulses of short wavelength X-rays with very high peak brightness and almost complete transverse coherence. The final one-third of the SLAC linac will be used as the source of electrons for the LCLS. The high energy electrons will be transported across the SLAC Research Yard, into a tunnel which will house a long undulator. In passing through the undulator, the electrons will be bunched by the force of their own synchrotron radiation and produce an intense, monochromatic, spatially coherent beam of X-rays. By varying the electron energy, the FEL X-ray wavelength will be tunable from 1.5 nm to 0.15 nm. The LCLS will include two experimental halls as well as X-ray optics and infrastructure necessary to create a facility that can be developed for research in a variety of disciplines such as atomic physics, materials science, plasma physics and biosciences. This Conceptual Design Report, the authors believe, confirms the feasibility of designing and constructing three X-ray instruments in order to exploit the unique scientific capability of this new LCLS facility. The technical objective of the LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments (LUSI) project is to design, build, and install at the LCLS three hard X-ray instruments that will complement the initial instrument included in the LCLS construction. As the science programs advance and new technological challenges appear, instrumentation needs to be developed and ready to conquer these new opportunities. The LCLS instrument concepts have been developed in close consultation with the scientific community through a series of workshops team meetings and focused reviews. In particular, the LUSI project instruments have been identified as meeting the most urgent needs of the scientific community based on the advice of the LCLS Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) in response to an open call for letters of intent (LOI) from the breadth of the scientific community.},
doi = {10.2172/918010},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/918010}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2007},
month = {Tue Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2007}
}