Porthos Workshop: Science opportunities at a fully coherent, femtosecond-synchronized, variable polarization, tender to hard x-ray XFEL

28 Nov 2023, 09:30 → 30 Nov 2023, 13:30 Europe/Zurich

Hotel Blume, Baden

Christoph Bostedt (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

SwissFEL is currently operating two undulator lines in parallel, the Athos line in the soft x-ray regime and the Aramis line in the hard x-ray regime. The SwissFEL design allows for one more undulator line, the Porthos line. 

Current developments in accelerator science and technology, undulators, and seeding concepts around the globe put fully coherent, x-ray free-electron lasers into reach. Electron beam manipulation with optical timing systems could enable femtosecond timing accuracy between optical and x-ray lasers. Advances in undulator technology allow for full polarization control.

During this workshop we will discuss science opportunities from a fully coherent, femtosecond synchronized, variable polarization, tender to hard x-ray free-electron laser line. The workshop will cover topics from the latest developments ranging from ultrafast laser sciences to quantum optics, amo and condensed matter physics to chemical, biological, and materials sciences. 

Tuesday 28 November

09:30 Arrival Coffee

Introduction to Porthos and Accelerator Concepts

Convener: Christoph Bostedt (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

1 Welcome

Speaker: Gabriel Aeppli (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

2 Introduction to the workshop and background

Speaker: Christoph Bostedt (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

3 SwissFEL statuts and lessons learned from Athos

Speaker: Thomas Schietinger (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

SwissFELStatusPorthosWS23.pdf

4 Accelerator concepts for Porthos

Speaker: Sven Reiche (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

Reiche_Coherence_Control_Porthos.pdf

5 QA

12:30 Lunch

International FEL Context

Convener: Christoph Bostedt (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

6 The European XFEL hard X-ray strategy

Speaker: Richard Bean (Eu-XEL)

7 Short wavelength, fully coherent light experiments at FERMI

Speaker: Kevin Prince (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

8 Attosecond X-ray sciences at LCLS

Speaker: James Cryan (SLAC / Stanford)

9 QA

16:00 Coffee Break

Attosecond Sciences

Convener: Kirsten Andrea Schnorr (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

10 Attosecond entanglement and coherence

Speaker: Mark Vrakking (Max-Born-Institute, Berlin)

11 Quantum dynamics and control

Speaker: Thomas Pfeifer (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

12 Extending attochemistry to solvated and chiral molecules

Speaker: Hans-Jakob Wörner (ETH Zürich)

13 QA

Wednesday 29 November

Condensed Matter Physics

Conveners: Roman Mankowsky (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Dr Simon Gerber (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

14 Attosecond physics in materials sciences

Speaker: Lukas Gallmann (ETH Zürich)

15 Non-equilibrium control of electronic and magnetic order in complex materials

Speaker: Michael Först (Max-Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter)

16 Dynamics of quantum materials

Speaker: Simon Wall (Aarhus University)

17 QA

10:30 Coffee Break

Coherent Imaging

Convener: Bill Francesco Pedrini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

18 Developments in imaging and opportunities at XFELs

Speaker: Manuel Guizar Sicairos (EPFL / PSI)

19 Ultrafast 3D imaging of nanoparticles

Speaker: Daniela Rupp (ETH Zürich)

20 Imaging materials dynamics

Speaker: Allan Johnson (IMDEA Madrid)

21 QA

13:00 Lunch

New Concepts (Theory)

Convener: Gregor Knopp (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

22 Non-linear X-ray phenomena

Speaker: Nina Rohringer (Universität Hamburg)

23 Quantum imaging / Quantum optics meets X-rays

Speaker: Joachim von Zanthier (Universität Erlangen)

24 Quantum light and spectroscopy

Speaker: Frank Schlawin (Universität Hamburg)

25 QA

16:00 Coffee Break

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Convener: Camila Bacellar (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

26 Imaging nuclear coherent dynamics

Speaker: Martin Meedom Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark)

27 Coherences in biology

Speaker: Ilme Schlichting (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research)

28 Coherences in (bio-)molecular systems

Speaker: Jasper van Thor (Imperial College, London)

29 QA

Thursday 30 November

New Concepts (Experiments)

Convener: Andre Al Haddad (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

30 Attosecond resonant imaging

Speaker: Tais Gorkhover (Universität Hamburg)

31 X-ray quantum optics

Speaker: Ralf Röhlsberger (Universität Jena)

32 Electron wave packet interferometry at FLASH

Speaker: Tim Laarmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

33 QA

10:30 Coffee Break

Workshop Wrap Up

Conveners: Andre Al Haddad (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Bill Francesco Pedrini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Camila Bacellar (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Gregor Knopp (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Kirsten Andrea Schnorr (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Roman Mankowsky (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Dr Simon Gerber (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:00 Lunch