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Beamline 9.0

Coherent Optics/Scattering Experiments (9.0.1)

Operational

Now

Source characteristics

10-cm-period undulator (U10)

Energy range

10-800 eV

Monochromator

Either none or an off-axis zone-plate monochromator that will provide a focused beam with bandwidth of about 0.1%

Calculated flux (1.9 GeV, 400 mA)

2.8 x 1015 photons/s/1%BW/central cone at 457 eV

Resolving power (E/ΔE)

70 (undulator peak width)

Endstations

General purpose

Detectors

Scintillator plus CCD, photodiode, etc.

Samples

 

Format

Various

Preparation

Can be cryo

Sample environment

Clean high vacuum

Special notes

Endstation separated from beamline by cooled window

Experimental techniques

Coherent scattering, holography, diffraction, correlation spectroscopy

Local contact

Name: Stefano Marchesini
Phone: (510) 486-7735
Fax: (510) 486-7696
Email: smarchesini @lbl.gov

Spokesperson

Name: Stephen Kevan
Affiliation: University of Oregon
Phone: (541) 346-4742
Fax: (541) 346-3422
Email: kevan@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Chemical Dynamics (9.0.2)

Operational

Now

Source characteristics

10-cm-period undulator (U10) (fundamental)

Energy range

5-30 eV

Undulator beam

White beam (straight undulator beam)

Calculated flux (1.9 GeV, 400 mA)

1016 photons/s/2.5%BW

Spot size at sample

400 (h) x 350 (v) µm
Monochromator #1 3-m Off-plane Eagle

Calculated flux (1.9 GeV, 400 mA)

1014 photons/s/0.1%BW

Spot size at sample

170 (h) x 50 (v) µm
Monochromator #2 3-m Off-plane Eagle
Calculated flux (1.9 GeV, 400 mA) 1014 photons/s/0.1%BW
Spot size at sample 560 (h) x 350 (v) µm

Endstations

Molecular-beam photoelectron/photoion spectroscopy
Molecular-beam photoelectron/photoion imaging and spectroscopy

Flame chamber
Ablation chamber
Aerosol chamber
Kinetics chamber

Local contact Musa Ahmed
Phone: (510) 486-6355
Fax: (510) 486-5311
Beamline Director Stephen Leone
Affiliation: Univ. of California, Berkeley
Phone: (510) 486-4754
Fax: (510) 495-2690

Beamline phone number

(510) 495-2092

 

Endstation

Molecular-beam photoelectron/photoion imaging and spectroscopy

Characteristics

Multipurpose design for photoion and photoelectron imaging and photoelectron/photoion coincidence experiments

Detectors

Time-of-flight 2-D position-sensitive detectors

Samples

Format

Gas sample

Preparation

Molecular beam, seeded in rare gas
Laser ablation source
Laser photolysis source
Plasma discharge
Cryogenic nozzle

Sample environment Vacuum ~10-5 Torr

Scientific applications

Spectroscopy and dynamics of clusters, radicals, metastable, and other novel species; fundamental understanding of excitation and relaxation processes in finite-sized many-body systems

Local contact

Musa Ahmed
Phone: (510) 486-6355
Fax: (510) 486-5311

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