Abstract
We report on a seventh annual workshop in a series focused on science realized by the combination of hard X-ray free electron lasers with high power optical lasers, hosted at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA. Members from the user community of the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) endstation of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and other scientists met with local scientists to discuss developments at LCLS and MEC and related facilities, including experimental results and future plans.
Highlights
On September 26th and 27th in Menlo Park, California, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) hosted the international user workshop on science realized by the combination of the Linac
These included a welcome message from SLAC director Chi-Chang Kao, a Department of Energy (DOE)-Basic Energy Sciences (BES) update from BES Director of Scientific User Facilities Jim Murphy, and Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and SSRL updates by LCLS and SSRL Directors Mike Dunne and Paul McIntyre, followed by a town hall discussion with the directors
Glenzer expressed support for the strategy of pursuing a PW laser of higher energy than the more common Ti:Sapphire architecture used at other XFELs, based on experiments suggesting much higher brightness ion source, necessary for single shot radiation damage studies, and simulations showing novel plasma physics states that could be driven by the laser
Summary
On September 26th and 27th in Menlo Park, California, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) hosted the international user workshop on science realized by the combination of the Linac. The workshop overlapped with the SSRL/LCLS User Meeting, and plenary sessions from that meeting were incorporated into the morning of the workshop’s first day These included a welcome message from SLAC director Chi-Chang Kao, a Department of Energy (DOE)-Basic Energy Sciences (BES) update from BES Director of Scientific User Facilities Jim Murphy, and LCLS and SSRL updates by LCLS and SSRL Directors Mike Dunne and Paul McIntyre, followed by a town hall discussion with the directors. In his talk, Dunne reflected on the 10 year anniversary of LCLS operations and discussed exciting future projects, including the LCLS-II upgrade [19] being installed during the 2019 shutdown, the LCLS-II-HE extension, new LDRD initiatives such as concepts to achieve. Facility Development Plan [21]
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