International Workshop on the Science with and the Instrumentation for Small Quantum Systems at the European XFEL

29 Oct 2008, 13:30 → 31 Oct 2008, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP One of the prioritized areas of scientific application for the upcoming European XFEL is the study of small Quantum Systems (SQSs) of atomic, molecular, cluster, or crystalline character in gas phase absorption experiments. This area of science has been described in the Technical Design Report for the European XFEL (available under www.xfel.eu) and includes studies of extremely dilute systems, of particles in traps, of non-linear processes using one- and two color techniques and also of ultra-fast processes in the gas phase. In this regime, targets can with large advantages also be prepared in the form of ion beams or of trapped highly charged ions. Experiments using the detection of particles, of scattered photons or of photon absorption have been proposed. Due to the nature of the techniques proposed the related experiments require the usage of soft x-ray radiation. The European XFEL foresees currently to provide soft X-ray radiation using its SASE 3 undulator delivering soft X-ray photons from as low as ~250 eV to as high as ~3100 eV to at least two photon end stations. The SQS instrument shall allow the usage of a variety of techniques and will require certain infrastructure to be available. In the particular area of ionic targets the need to build suitable target preparation infrastructures available as an integral part of the XFEL facility was emphasized in the TDR. The workshop will bring together scientists interested in experiments using the SQS instrument. It is the purpose of the workshop to review the area of application of the SQS instrument, to discuss the requirements of the various experimental techniques to the X-ray FEL beam delivery and finally to initiate activities and collaborations on instrumentation and facilities needed at and for the SQS instrument of the European XFEL facility. For further information, please visit the workshop site: http://www.phys.au.dk/SQS-workshop-xfel/