Shift summary, posted by Jörg Hallmann on 07 Dec 2024, 02:04
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data collection of bubbles in elastomers (good progress)
issue: beam loss in the tunnel during the day - experts checked the situation and the situation improved during the evening |
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Shift summary, posted by Jörg Hallmann on 08 Dec 2024, 02:49
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successful measurements of elastomer, gelatine & bio samples
issue:
beam loss at about 2:45 due to communication issues with accelerator modules |
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Shift summary, posted by Konopkova Zuzana on 02 Feb 2024, 12:40
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beam parametes: 8.5-9 kev, 1.2 mJ, 1-2 pulses
HED trajectory established from XRO setpoint, shape and transmission optimized
monochromator aligned
5
sets of CRLs including nano-focus aligned
ZZ yesterday morning to fix cameras, connect motors..
DAQ rolled back to legacy version, |
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Experiment summary, posted by Konopkova Zuzana on 13 Feb 2024, 08:55
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*Achievements :
- Generally rather successful with very high quality beam parameters
- We had a nearly steady 800 uJ+ HXRSS flux during the user run and ~ 4mJ SASE during the setup at HED. |
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Shift summary, posted by Motoaki Nakatsutsumi on 24 Feb 2024, 11:58
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Shift summary 2024-02-23 07:00 - 2024-02-24 10:00
We got self-seeding at 8.5 keV very quickly after changeover from 10.5 keV operation finished at 2024-02-23 07:00.
Pulse energy ~ 600 uJ. |
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Shift summary, posted by Motoaki Nakatsutsumi on 25 Feb 2024, 14:47
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Shift summary for 2024-02-24 from 07:00 to 2024-02-25 at 14:00:
Self-seeding at 8.5 keV, with approximately 500 μJ per pulse. Following re-tuning around 10 am on the 25th, the energy per pulse increased
to around 600 μJ. |
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Shift summary, posted by Motoaki Nakatsutsumi on 26 Feb 2024, 14:32
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Shift summary for 2024-02-25 from 11:00 to 2024-02-25 at 14:00:
Self-seeding at 8.5 keV, with approximately 500 μJ per pulse.
Overall, the performance of x-ray self-seeding remains good, and users are happy. Pointing stability is also exceptional. However, enhancing |
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Experiment summary, posted by Konopkova Zuzana on 05 May 2024, 00:25
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proposal 5700 finished on 04.05. The experiment used 352 pulses at 4.5 MHz and 18 keV to X-ray heat pressurized samples in diamond
anvil cells. Overall succesful on several samples.
Issues:
the requested 20.5 keV photon energy had too low pulse intensities
so we had to go down to 18 keV
pulse energies at 18 keV (300-400 uJ) were insufficient for some samples
the ramp in pulse envelope |
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Shift summary, posted by Konopkova Zuzana on 27 May 2024, 06:41
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beam parameters: 2 colors at around 6.5 keV, 1 pulse
achievements:
user program continues with data acquisition at slightly varying photon energies (tens of eV both colors simultaneously) and at different delays |
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Shift summary, posted by Peter Zalden on 22 Feb 2024, 06:13
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Beam conditions:
Used photon energies between 6 and 7 keV, including short undulator scans
Continuously got 1 mJ despite the short pulse mode
that's running
Bandwidth was found to be 18 eV FWHM at 6.07 keV (0.3%) by monochromator scan against fixed undulator setpoint
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Issue, posted by Peter Zalden on 28 Feb 2024, 06:57 
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Not sure if this is the cause of the fringes reported before, but at 5.6 keV there are clear cracks visible on the XTD2 Attenuators 75 umm and 150um
CVD, see attached. There is also a little bit of damage on the 600 um CVD, but not as strong as the others.
At 5.6 keV we will need to use the thin attenuators. I will mention again in case this causes problems downstream. |
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SA1 status, posted by Peter Zalden on 28 Feb 2024, 08:57
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5.61 keV setpoint in SA1 was confirmed to correspond to 5.660 keV (+/- 0.003 keV), see attached.
The user expt #5644 can proceed as planned. |
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Shift summary, posted by Peter Zalden on 20 Mar 2024, 23:15
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Preparation for user experiment transient grating, Cris Svetina
Used 7.12 keV from ACC with very good performance, above 4 mJ
Got spatiotemporal overlap with transient gratings using monochromatic
beam
One issue solved by DOC: Picomotors could not be scanned in karabacon, even though this worked well two/three weeks ago
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Shift summary, posted by Peter Zalden on 21 Mar 2024, 23:20
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User experiment transient grating, Cris Svetina. (LTP)
Used 7.12 keV from ACC with very good performance, above 4 mJ.
Collected pump-probe data on user sample
Sudden
timing jump of around 20 ps. Could not find out why this happened some time between 9h today and 18h.
Needed to add camera to DAQ. Solved this |
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Shift summary, posted by Peter Zalden on 22 Mar 2024, 23:13
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User experiment transient grating, Cris Svetina. (LTP)
Used 7.11 keV from ACC with very good performance, above 4 mJ.
Collected pump-probe data on user sample most of the time
today, only minor interruptions due to accelerator outages
After the outage at 21h, SASE came back with 17 eV lower photon energy, so we had |
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Shift summary, posted by Peter Zalden on 23 Mar 2024, 23:12
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User experiment transient grating, Cris Svetina. (LTP)
Used 7.11 keV from ACC with very good performance, above 4 mJ.
Collected pump-probe data on user sample most of the time
today
FXE will operate in 24h mode for the rest of the delivery week
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Shift summary, posted by Peter Zalden on 13 Apr 2024, 23:03
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Measurements to check the impact of bunch compression on FXE mono transmission were successful. We could change the peak current between 4 and 12 kA
and saw changes in bandwidth between 17 and 100 eV (at 14 keV). Results are under evaluation.
SA1 brought to safe state: |
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Shift summary, posted by Peter Zalden on 23 Aug 2024, 08:48
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Used 9.4 keV with 94 kHz wed and thu nights. Received approx. 0.9 mJ with large fluctuations in pulse energy, however acceptable for the tasks below.
Achievements:
X-ray optics and goniometer aligned for next user experiment 5725
Transmission through Mono #2 recovered and calibrated to |
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Issue, posted by Peter Zalden on 08 Sep 2024, 20:30
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We observe a continuous horizontal beam drift in SA1 after the M1 incident. It seems not to converge, so one can wonder where this will go....
Attached screenshot shows the M2 piezo actuator RY that keeps the beam at the same position on the M3 PBLM. These are about 130 m apart, The
drift is 1V/12 hours. 0.01V corresponds to a beam motion by 35 um. So the drift velocity is 0.3 mm/hour. In the past days this had at least once lead to |
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Issue, posted by Peter Zalden on 09 Sep 2024, 23:19
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| Finally, the drift velocity of the pointing reduced approx a factor of 2 as compared to yesterday, see attached. Possibly it will still converge... |