2002 NSLS Users' Meeting

X-ray Sources for Studies of Ultrafast Processes

National Synchrotron Light Source, Bldg. 725B, Seminar Room

Monday, May 20, 2002

Organizer: John Sutherland, BNL, 631-344-3279

New technologies are appearing that make possible studies of the structure and dynamics of matter on time scales of pico- and femtoseconds. Extending the spectral range of such studies into the X-ray region will increase significantly the information that can be obtained. This workshop will review briefly the scientific case for the use of X-rays in the study of ultrafast processes. The main focus will be on the resources available for such studies at present and those that are expected to become available over the next decade. The latter group includes new time resolved capabilities obtainable by adding new experimental facilities (beamlines) to existing accelerators as well as sources that can only be realized by the construction of new accelerators.

9:00 a.m.	John Arthur, Stanford Linear Accelerator Facility, "SPPS: A New Ultrafast Synchrotron Radiation Source at SLAC"
9:45 a.m.	Joel Brock, Cornell University, "Energy Recovery LINAC: Applications to Ultra-fast Science Using X-rays"
10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.	Stephen Milton, Argonne National Laboratory, "SASE FEL"
11:45 a.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	Gwyn Williams, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, "Compton Backscatter from ERL-FEL"
2:15 p.m.	Christoph Rose-Petruck, Brown University, "Tabletop, Ultrafast X-ray sources and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Chemical Research"
3:00 p.m.	Discussion