Operator Training

Final meeting 2020

by Matthias Scholz (MXL (XFEL))

→ Europe/Berlin
Description

Despite Corona, 2020 was a very successful year for the operation of EuXFEL. Thank you very much for your contribution! 

I would like to invite you to a last operator training for this year on Tuesday 15. December at 9:30 am. 

Of course this has to be an online meeting via Zoom. 
You can participate by clicking on the following link: 

It will not be a training in the usual sense, but I wanted to discuss the last year of operation with you, give you an outlook on the coming year and share your tips and suggestions for operation in common. 

 

 

Meeting topics: 

Successful operation in 2020!

  • In spite of corona, 2020 was a successful year with very good operation performance! Thanks for your commitment! 
  • D3 has noted with approval that there was less activation of beamline components than expected! 

 

Restart in January 2021

  • logbook link to the schedule. 
  • It might be that the corona shut down over Christmas and new year eventually delays the restart in 2021.  But there are no shifts canceled up to now. 
  • Shutdown work at XFEL will continue until December 22, 2020 as scheduled. 

 

New stuff at/after restart? 

  • There will be new fast kickers for orbit correction within a bunch train to correct the trajectory change due to eddy currents caused by the dump kickers. -> more stable SASE over pulse trains. 
  • HXSS (Hard X-ray Self Seeding) will be used during next user run. There will be help by the system experts at the beginning. 
  • The experiment hutches will not change every 12 hours but every week. This will give us more stable operation conditions and it will most likely lead to a more efficient use of the beam times. 

 

XFEL Operations Confluence page

  • Blog -> please watch the blog page! 
  • Procedures -> not yet complete but we are working on it! Using existing procedures is mandatory. 
  • Link to operator trainings. -> More operator trainings again in 2021. Also new topics. Any suggestions from your side? 
  • Short video tutorials? 

 

 

Organised by

Matthias Scholz