Submit Proposals for Experiments with Soft X-rays at the AMO and SXR Stations Before May 15th
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is currently building the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), which will start operation in summer 2009. LCLS will produce intense, sub-picosecond pulses of spatially-coherent X-rays. In a flash of about 100 femtoseconds duration, LCLS will provide 1012 X-ray photons, roughly as many photons as obtained in one second at today's best storage-ringbased synchrotron radiation facilities. LCLS X-rays will enable investigation of systems at the atomic and nano-scale under conditions where the matter is far from equilibrium, and actually undergoing real-time reactions.
It is the goal of LCLS to attract a large number of users from diverse fields and to enable a broad set of important experiments that take advantage of the unique capabilities of LCLS. Five experimental stations are currently being constructed to serve the following scientific thrust areas:
1. Atomic, molecular and optical science (AMO)
2. Investigation of materials with soft X-rays (SXR)
3. Diffraction studies of stimulated dynamics (XPP)
4. Coherent imaging of non-periodic objects (CXI)
5. Coherent scattering of nano-scale fluctuations (XCS)
In this second call for proposals, we invite the world's research community to submit scientific proposals for experiments to be carried out during the time period March – July 2010. During this period, only the two soft-X-ray experimental stations at LCLS will be operational: AMO and SXR. The available spectral range will be from 0.8 to 2 keV, and the maximum repetition rate of the Xray flashes is expected to be 60 Hz. Proposals must be submitted by May 15, 2009.
Detailed descriptions of the instruments are available on the LCLS User Web site.
Find up-to-date information on the AMO beamline at:
http://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/amo/AMOTechOverview.aspx
Specific questions about the AMO station should be directed to John Bozek (jdbozek@slac.stanford.edu).
Find up-to-date information on the SXR beamline at:
http://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/sxr/SXRTechOverview.aspx
http://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/sxr/SXRTechEndStations.aspx
For more information about the SXR instruments, contact Michael Rowen (rowen@slac.stanford.edu).
Instructions for submitting proposals can be found on the LCLS Users Web Site.
Note: For security and privacy purposes, users need to register again and get new accounts/passwords (even if they already have accounts from past proposal submissions).
Closing date to submit AMO or SXR Proposals: May 15, 2009
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