X-ray Overview
John Arthur – LCLS Expt’l Facilities Div
May 14, 2009
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Current LCLS Organization
LCLS Director
Dale Knutson
Accelerator Systems Div
Experimental Facilities Div
John Seeman
Jochen Schneider
operate accelerator for science
Business Div
Cindy Lowe
operate instruments for science
Engineering
Physics Div
David Schultz
Strategic
Projects Div
John Galayda
LCLS Construction
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LUSI
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LCLS Organization is changing
Joachim Stöhr to become director of LCLS
Accelerator parts to be split off into new directorate
Will take several months to finalize
Will not affect X-ray operations much
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Division of responsibility
ASD responsibility
Undulator Hall
XFD responsibility
Near Experimental Hall
Front End Enclosure
Far Experimental Hall
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Experimental Facilities Division (XFD)
Jochen Schneider
Operations
J. Arthur
Safety
Instrumentation
Projects
Science
J. Hastings
Z. Van Hoover
G. Pile (acting)
Photon Beamlines
Soft X-Rays
FEE
LCLS Project
LUSI Instruments
Document
Control
Hard X-Rays
Technical Support Unit
User Support
Floor Coordinators
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ES&H
Detectors, DAQ
Data Analysis
Application Software
Scientific Computing
Development of Optics
and Diagnostics
2nd Generation
Instruments
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Quality
Assurance
Matrixed Org.
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Experimental Facilities Division Tasks
Manage safe operations in LCLS experimental areas
Manage LCLS user program
Maintain and upgrade X-ray instrumentation
Enable good user science; initiate in-house research
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Current XFD Priorities
LCLS Construction: Installation in FEE, Hutch 1
Augment scientific and support staff
Create structure for safe operations
Begin User program
LUSI: Accelerate schedule
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FEE installation plan
Two-phase installation
Solid
Attenuators
Phase 1
Gas
Attenuator
Calorimeter
Slit
Gas
Detectors
K-Mono
5 mm collimator
Direct Imager
(Scintillator)
FEL Offset Mirror Systems
Phase 2
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FEE installation details
Phase 1 includes all X-ray diagnostics
Most items shipped to SLAC from LLNL, being installed
Most wiring done, testing in progress
First beam by end of June
Phase 2 includes mirrors
Install most component in June
Beam-alignment cameras installed in July
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LCLS Offset Mirror Systems
800-2000 eV to
Hutch 1
HOMS: Hard x-ray Offset
Mirror System
SOMS: Soft x-ray Offset
Mirror System
insertable
800-2000 eV to
Hutch 2
Shadow
Wall
Wall 2
insertable
2000-25000 eV
to Hutch 3-6
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The first two LCLS instruments
AMO
Soft X-ray beamline without monochromator,
for high-field experiments
Funded by LCLS Construction
Installation June 2009
Commissioning July 2009
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SXR
Soft X-ray beamline with monochromator,
for materials science
Funded by SXR Consortium
Installation January 2010
Commissioning March 2010
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XFD staffing
XFD began 2009 with some staff in place
J. Schneider, J. Hastings, J. Arthur (upper management)
H. Tompkins (NEH Area Manager)
P. Stefan, S. Moeller (diagnostics physicists)
N. van Bakel (detector physicist)
J. Bozek (AMO scientist)
D. Fritz, A. Robert, S. Boutet, Y. Feng (LUSI scientists)
Matrix support from Laser group, Controls group, DAQ group,
Rad Physics
A total of about 20 people equal to 12 FTE
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XFD staffing
New staff supporting XFD early operations
Z. Van Hoover (XFD Safety Officer)
J. Bringetto (XFD Documentation Specialist)
H. Kamil (LCLS User Admin)
C. Bostedt (AMO scientist)
D. Rich, J-C Castagna, M. Holmes (operations engineers)
Coming soon, needed for AMO commissioning
Floor Coordinators (3 just hired, need 6 total)
Coming soon, not essential for AMO commissioning
Additional technicians
Administrator
Additional scientists
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New XFD Operations Structure
Strong ties between XFD and ASD
ASD operating structure used as a model for XFD
Preparing key processes and documentation
XFD directives: describe roles/responsibilities and prescribed
actions
XFD training plan and training records plan
SAD, ASE to include NEH
Instrument Readiness Review (IRR) process for adding
capability to LCLS experimental area incrementally
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Timeline to approval for experimental ops
June
Install/test FEE instrumentation
Hire remaining staff, prepare processes and documentation
Prepare for ARR
Install AMO instrument in Hutch 1
Accelerator Readiness Review June 30
Validate operational readiness process, including IRR process
July
X-rays in FEE, commission diagnostics
Finish AMO instrument installation/testing
Instrument Readiness Review for AMO instrument
Resolve any final issues
X-rays to AMO, begin instrument commissioning
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LCLS User Program
Goal: safe, efficient operation promoting the best science
LCLS will be a DOE-BES User Facility
Access through proposal/review process
LCLS scientific staff frequently collaborate with users,
also maintain independent research programs
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User Program Management
LCLS and SSRL are combining resources, creating a
common User Administration Group
Managed by Cathy Knotts
Manages User training, User agreements, User metrics
LCLS supports one added User Administrator
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LCLS Proposal Review Panel (PRP)
PRP members
Christina Back (San Diego)
Magid Chergui (ETH Lausanne)
Lew Cocke (Kansas)
Gianluca Gregori (Cambridge, UK)
Chi-Chang Kao (BNL)
Steve Kevan (Oregon)
Janos Kirz (LBNL)
Dwayne Miller (Toronto)
Juerg Osterwalder (University of Zuerich)
Metin Tolan (University of Dortmund)
Kyoshi Ueda (Sendai)
Edgar Weckert (DESY)
Two representatives of LCLS management without voting rights:
Jerry Hastings
Jochen Schneider
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LCLS User Program: Important dates
First proposal round close
9/1/2008
(AMO only)
2nd proposal round close
5/15/2009
(AMO, SXR)
3rd proposal round close
10/1/2009 (AMO, SXR, XPP)
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LCLS User Program: First experiments
First proposal round: 28 proposals from 16 countries (>200 scientists)
PRP met in December, gave highest rank to ~10 proposals
10 experiments scheduled for Sept-Dec 2009
Second proposal round: 62 proposals from 15 countries (nearly 500
scientists!)
PRP to meet in July. Rankings will be used for determining spring
2010 schedule
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Summary
XFD is a new department at SLAC, will run LCLS X-ray
experimental facilities
XFD and ASD are working together to operate LCLS
XFD will be the interface between LCLS and the world
user community
XFD is staffing up and preparing a structure for safe,
efficient operations
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