Achievements:

1. Replaced focusing lens of PP laser and measured focus with knife edge, focus is about 720 micron vert. & 600 horizontal. Horizontal x-ray spot size is 220 micron
2. Adapted fluence calibration for the new spot sizes
3. Optimized spatial and temporal overlap with new lens
4. Performed optical and x-ray intensity & sample damage tests. We found that up to 15% GATT and up to 50% laser power are okay to use, without altering the sample.
5. We started to collect hRIXS data at positive (1ps) and negative (-2ps) delays.

Problems:

1. Few beam dumps.
2. BAM scene not working
3. The new (?) centroiding function produces spectra with different intensity for acquisitions with the same settings. The old algorithm seems to work well.