Porthos Brainstorming Meeting

Europe/Zurich
WBGB/021 (PSI)

WBGB/021

PSI

Present: Ch. Bostedt, H. Braun

Link to Porthos Workshop agenda: https://indico.psi.ch/event/15311/

Input from Gabriel Aeppli (before the meeting):

Thanx for this exposition. As you know, I will not be able to attend this afternoon, so will add the following points now (am sure more will come to mind later
  1.  Should we reconfigure, as suggested by the last PSAC, Aramis in light of Porthos? Very specifically, should the physics part of Cristallina be moved to Porthos? What about Bernina - thus making way for a bio/chem takeover of Aramis?
  2. what about scandium (with its freakishly narrow nuclear resonance) at ca 12 keV? See recent Nature paper. Is this is a tiny niche or something more important? More generally - what is the future fir exploitation of nuclear resonances?
  3. XFELO with all four electron pulses/10 msec cycle which we will get with Porthos upgrade
  4. You mention entangled photons in intro & this needs to be elaborated upon in discussions -if u entangle visible & x-ray photons u could do damage-free experiments. 
  5.  To improve pump/probe timing should we be using electron beam(s) for THz-UV pumping (others are going this way), or are there other more clever things to do? 
 

Sven:

If you want 1-10 keV, the undulator period should be around 30 mm. Then you'll need 40 m for saturation, for two-color and self-seeding 80 m, we have that.
Three levels of seeding:

  1. Self seeding (straight-forward)
  2. External seeding with Athos
  3. External seeding with a separate facility

Hans: should we show the international landscape.

We should also summarize where we are.

Thomas presentation "SwissFEL Status" (based on FLS talk)

  • SwissFEL accelerator summary
  • Lessons from Athos
  • Short / special modes (nonlinear compression, 10 pC, fresh-slice high-power...)
  • HERO and EEHG: status

Sven presentation "visions for Porthos":

  • Minimum bandwidth: with self-seeding option (100 fs)
  • Short pulses down to 1 fs, incl. synchronization, high-power, mode purity...
  • EEHG and HHG (4 keV, external seeded)
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