LCLS: The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC
<p>May 17, 2015 03:26 PM</p>
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excellent description of Linac Coherent Light Source = LCLS. from 2009</p>
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began in 2009... pron lynn ack... first hard xray. adds another 1/2 mile onto orig accel 2 mile long.</p>
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starts with drive laser... strikes copper cathode plate to release electrons.</p>
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Chick- canes chicanes. (a beam jog)... enables slow electrons to catch up with fastest.</p>
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then 2nd chicane.</p>
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12 B ev = Gev...</p>
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undulator hall: long array of 1000s of dipoles...</p>
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electrons give off xrays => so electrons arrange into parallel sheets
which reson with xrays...</p>
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need electron beam dump</p>
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xrays... unaffected by magnet.</p>
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120X per second...</p>
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then to 6 expt stations.</p>
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images of single molecules... get images before molecule is disintegrated.</p>
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