SA2 cell#5 undulator segment moved at ~09:45AM Fri to 25mm without aparent reason and undulator experts need a ZZ to exchange power supply; FEL instensity dropped from 230uJ to 60uJ s consequence.

RCs are preparing south branch for the iminent ZZ. HED is informed.

**Update: ZZ finished by 12:10; recovered performance and re-started delivery by 13:30.

- While FEL IMG with YAG screen was inserted in SA1, EPS/MPS was not limited to the expected 2 bunches, but to 30 bunches; 
- It was found the condition #3 ("SA1_XTD2_VAC/Switch/SA1_PNACT_Close") at the EPS Mode-S was disabled which should be always enabled; 
- Condition #3 has been enabled again and now SA1 is limited to 2 bunches, as expected when YAG screen is inserted. 

Further investigations will be done to find why and when it was disabled. 

Dear MID colleagues, Svitozar (PRC), Bolko and Shan (RCs),
This morning we faced the situation where MID was limited to 400 pulses (mode M) via the EPS signals. The current RF window set at the machine allows to the requested 450 pulses.
The limiting conditions were the inserted graphite filter (#2) and the diamon screen at the MID Pop-in (#17). After a discussion with experts (and thanking Naresh, Wolfgang and Andreas), both conditions in EPS mode F (see attached) are now disabled, as the current SA2 beam offer safe condition for both devices.
This special situation with disabled EPS signals in mode F is in place until Tuesday 05.Nov as MID will stay at ~12.28keV and with HXRSS (500-600uJ). Please note that in case of either a change in photon energy, substantial increase of photon flux, longer SA RF window or the wish to insert YAG screen at the SA2 Pop-in, these two mentioned conditions have to be enabled again at the SA2 EPS Mode F prior these actions take place.
After the beamtime ends on Tuesday 7AM, either me, Naresh or the PRC will make sure these two EPS conditions are re-enabled.
In case of questions please do not hesitate in contacting me.
Best wishes,
Frederik

**Update Mon 15:00: The beamtime delivery to MID is extended up to Tuesday 9AM. At this moment the EPS signals will be enabled again by Frederik W.-F.

X-ray delivery

12.5 keV, ~1.6 mJ

Achievements/Observations:
Collected almost 40 runs of the priority sample with 7 pulses per train using the Polypico injection system.

Issues:
Jungfrau controller issue when changing back to single cell adaptive to collect powder data with new geometry (solved together with DOC).
Pipeline issue after requesting single cell correction - still the same bug in the calibration pipeline, the pipeline has to be re-instantiated after the change.

12.389keV, HXRSS, 1-400+ bunches, 450uJ

• Seeding alignment
• Beamline alignment (Mirror + foccussing)
• Measured energy and moved it the requested value
• Cryos for sample and monochromator are prepared
• Aligned DES spectrometer
• Started with DCCM characterization (440)

This is to report some findings during operation that should be looked into (mostly to avoid in the future, because both negatively affect data quality of the user expt at FXE):

• At the moment, the 99:1 mode affects 4 to 5 pulses out of 100 in SA1, see first screenshot that shows in the top right the IPM reading with each blue point denoting the average pulse energy in a train. This was not always the case. After initial setup on thursday it did affect only a single train out of 100.
• On 27.10., the switching of SA2 between 1 and multiple bunches affected SA1 beam heavily, see the jumps in SA1 pulse energy in the second screenshot shown here:
  • The pulse energy dropped by 15% and
  • the pointing changed vertically by 150 um on the FXE PI (data not shown, but available from karabo trendlines)

Edit 8.11.: Added screenshot (grafana/ctrend) to show that the vertical displacement was permanent (not corrected by the feedback)

X-ray delivery

12.4 keV, ~1.4 mJ

Achievements/Observations

Beam was focused on a YaG, alignment finished up to JF4M

Desy Laser group has fixed the issue about the laser Synchronization.

https://ttfinfo.desy.de/XFELelog/show.jsp?dir=/2024/41/07.10_M&pos=2024-10-07T14:51:12

Naresh

PRC

wk41

14:40hr

FXE and HED reported the laser synchronization issue. Informed to Machine RC. 

LbSync team couldn't fixed this issue remotely and on there way to Schenefeld to fix this issue.

Naresh 

PRC wk 41

X-ray delivery

    6 keV, ~2.8 mJ, continuous beam drift in both direction

Optical laser delivery

    ns laser for particle visualization

Achievements/Observations

    DAta collection for CDI
    Julabo chiller (AGIPD) is still on target (-32 degree)

Issues

    Continuous beam drift in the both direction: NKB focus was optimized almost every 2 hours

01:49

Worked on the XPCS analysis packages
measured the TetraPack samples
continued with the levitation device

issues:

1. Jungfrau detector had an error - R. Shayduk restarted the device - it should be power cycled as described in the manual
2. The bunch number selctor does not work - the system didn't accepted 150 pulse but moved it back to 30 pulses - the machine switched off the user selection - should be followed up tomorrow

**X-ray delivery**

- 6 keV, ~2.8 mJ, continuous beam drift in vertical direction (both XTD2 & XTD9 XGMs)

**Optical laser delivery**
- ns laser for particle visualization

**Achievements/Observations**
- measured sample for almost whole day (about 100 runs x 5 minutes)
- Julabo chiller (AGIPD) is still on target (-32 degree)

**Issues**
- Continuous beam drift in the vertical direction: NKB focus was optimized almost every 2 hours
- Sudden intensity drop in SA1 when SA2 or SA3 changes the number of pulses.

X-ray beam is continuously drifting in the vertical direction (XTD9_XGM)
It affects our NKB focus and focused beam is also drifting continuously.

Beam is back. Current status:

SASE1 (SPB/SFX)

• 2.72 mJ, 352 bunches/train, 6 keV

SASE2 (MID)

• 880 uJ, 1 bunch/train, 8 keV

SASE3 (SQS)

• 4.56 mJ, 1 bunch/train, 400 eV (3.1nm)

A2 failure - downtime

The machine / RC informs (11h22) that there is an issue with the accelerator module A2 (first module in L1, right after the injector).
This causes a downtime of the accelerator of 1 hour (from 10h51 to 11h51), affecting all photon beamlines.

**X-ray delivery**

- 6 keV, ~2.8 mJ, stable delivery

**Optical laser delivery**
- ns laser for particle visualization

**Achievements/Observations**
- measured user sample for almost whole day (about 100 runs x 5 minutes)
- Julabo chiller (AGIPD) is still on target (-32 degree)

**Issues**
- MKB Ion pump error (issue fixed after resetting the device)
- NKB focus loosed. Focus reoptimized twice during the d2 shift

continued with the evaluation of the XPCS analysis packages
investigated the effect of alignment optimizations and forced misalignments on the contrast directly with the online XPCS tool
checked additional standard samples 

X-ray delivery

• 6 keV, ~3.0 mJ, stable delivery

Optical laser delivery

• ns laser for particle visualization

Achievements/Observations

• measured 1 sample roughly for 9 hours (hit rate went down in the afternoon)
• Julabo chiller (AGIPD) is still on target (-32 degree)

Issues

• NKB mirror drifted in vertical direction: it was optimized again at around 9pm
• extremely low hit rate even with sucrose (extremely few particles were observed in sidemic, 1 particle within a few seconds): maybe the aerodynamic lens should be cleaned