X-ray delivery

• 0.5 mj, improved to 1.1 mj xray energy in the evening

Optical laser delivery

• 50 fs, 860 nm as fundamental wavelength, 188 kHz
• ns for illumination,

Achievements/Observations

• Aligned the instrument to 9.3 keV
• Aligned the PPL laser
• Time zero PPL
• Measured sample, dark runs, including testing different sample conditions (filtered vs not filtered or lower cutoff)
• Measured TR-SFX

Issues

• Low xray energy, BKR improved it afternoon, from 0.5 to 1.1 mj, hopefully we could still get better the following days
• PP-laser AMPHOS issues
• The focus at IRU in the evening had issues, we had to redo the alignment partially. We also had to ask BKR to improve the beam alignment at FEL imager.