Workshop to Define the Science Case for a Soft X-ray Laser Beamline at MAX IV

21 Mar 2016, 10:00 → 23 Mar 2016, 15:00 UTC

AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm

Anders Nilsson, Stefano Bonetti (Stockholm university)

On March 21-23, 2016, more than 100 Swedish scientists and more than 30 leading international scientists met in Stockholm for the SXL Workshop. The aim of this workshop was to discuss the science that could be conducted at a Soft X-ray Laser beamline at MAX IV, built in the existing short pulse facility and using the 3 GeV linear accelerator.

The intention was to develop a science-case document to be presented to the board of directors and to the scientific advisory committee at MAX IV Laboratory, and to the main funding agencies in Sweden. The workshop consisted of plenary talks, science talks in parallel sessions followed by walk-up talks (3 minutes / 1-2 slides), discussions and writing in break-out groups organised in the following areas:

Atomic and Molecular Science, Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Novel Spectroscopy and Scattering, Life Sciences and FEL Science.

The science case has now been compiled and it can be downloaded here.

Paper SXL_science_case_161102.pdf

Monday 21 March

10:00 → 11:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Meeting

Conveners: Anders Karlhede (Dean of Science Faculty at Stockholm University), Anders Nilsson, Jesper Andersen (Science Director at MAX IV Laboratory), Mats Larsson, Sverker Werin

11:00 → 11:30 FEL Research and Development at the LCLS

Speaker: Zhirong Huang

11:30 → 12:00 Control of soft X-ray pulses at the seeded Free Electron Laser FERMI

Speaker: Enrico Allaria

12:00 → 12:15 Lund Laser Centre

Speaker: Per Johnsson

12:15 → 12:30 Opportunities for THz pump / x-ray probe investigations

Speaker: Stefano Bonetti

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Multi-Wave Mixing at FERMI

Speaker: Claudio Masciovecchio

13:30 → 14:00 Probing photochemistry of isolated molecules by short x-ray pulses

Speaker: Markus Gühr

13:30 → 14:00 Probing the dynamics of electronic orderings using time-resolved resonant x-ray scattering

Speaker: Yi-De Chuang

14:00 → 14:30 Probing ultrafast surface chemistry and catalysis with optical and soft x-ray lasers

Speaker: Henrik Öström

14:00 → 14:30 Quenching of the Resonant Magnetic Scattering by Ultra-Short Free-Electron Laser Light Pulses

Speaker: Magnus Berntsen

14:00 → 14:30 Stimulated x-ray Raman scattering in molecules

Speaker: Victor Kimberg

14:30 → 15:00 Experiments for stimulated soft X-ray emission from solids

Speaker: Martin Beye

14:30 → 15:00 Opportunity to probe oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions at Interfaces using SXL

Speaker: Hiroito Ogasawara

14:30 → 15:00 Towards controlled manipulation of inner-shell electrons

Speaker: Linda Young

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:00 Controlling Resonant Soft X-Ray Processes through Stimulation

Speaker: Joachim Stöhr

15:30 → 16:00 Localization of electrons with xrays. Prospects and challenges

Speaker: Dennis Nordlund

15:30 → 16:00 Towards a complete picture of few X-ray photons driven ionisation

Speaker: Raimund Feifel

16:00 → 16:30 Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy for photovoltaics

Speaker: Martina Dell'Angela

16:00 → 16:30 Resonant Magnetic Scattering

Speaker: Gerhard Grübel

16:00 → 16:30 Resonant and non-resonant multi-photon processes in atoms

Speaker: Michael Meyer

16:30 → 18:00 Breakout sessions

16:30 → 18:00 Breakout sessions

16:31 → 17:00 Challenges and opportunities for atomic, molecular, cluster science at the Low Density Matter beamline at FERMI

Speaker: Carlo Callegari

17:00 → 18:00 Breakout sessions

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday 22 March

09:00 → 09:30 Coherent diffractive imaging of giant amoeba viruses

Speaker: Jonas Sellberg

09:00 → 09:30 Electronic and Structural Dynamics in Metal Complexes enlightened by XFEL Experiments

Speaker: Prof. Martin Meedom Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark)

09:00 → 09:30 Femtosecond dynamics of antiferromagnetic spin order in an induced multiferroic

Speaker: Steve Johnson

09:30 → 10:00 Chemical dynamics: From single site to multi centre dynamics

Speaker: Alexander Föhlisch

09:30 → 10:00 Single particle imaging: the past and the future

Speaker: Filipe Maia

09:30 → 10:00 Towards controlling spins in space and time

Speaker: Hermann Dürr

10:00 → 10:30 1D crystallography: XFEL imaging of biological assemblies with helical symmetry

Speaker: Gisela Brändén

10:00 → 10:30 Dynamics of electrons at work in solar energy conversion

Speaker: Villy Sundström

10:00 → 10:30 Seeing Spins Move

Speaker: Stefan Eisebitt

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Breakout sessions

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Science Opportunities for the LCLS-II High Repetition Rate Soft X-ray Laser

Speaker: Robert Schoenlein

14:30 → 15:00 Experimental strategies and research perspectives taking advantage of fully coherent EUV-Soft X-ray FERMI radiation

Speaker: Maya Kiskinova

15:00 → 15:30 Soft x-ray science opportunities and instrumentation at European XFEL

Speaker: Andreas Scherz

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Breakout sessions: Summary (15 minutes / group)

Wednesday 23 March

09:00 → 09:30 FLASH - a High Repetition Rate XUV and Soft X-Ray FEL

Speaker: Wilfried Wurth

09:30 → 10:00 SwissFEL: expanding capabilities with ATHOS

Speaker: Rafael Abela

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Breakout sessions: Writing session in break-out groups

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 Breakout sessions: Summary (15 minutes / group)

14:30 → 14:55 Summary

Convener: Prof. Ingolf Lindau (Lund University)

14:55 → 15:00 End of meeting

Convener: Anders Nilsson