X-ray delivery:

20 keV, ~ 400 uJ, 246 pulses, stable delivery

Optical Laser:

1030 nm, 850 fs, stable delivery

Achievements / Observations:

Spatial and temporal alignment of optical laser setup
Data collection

X-ray delivery:

20 keV, ~ 500 uJ, 246 pulses, stable delivery

Optical Laser:

1030 nm, 850 fs, stable delivery

Achievements / Observations:

Lots of data collection

Issues:

Shimadzu camera for Schlieren imaging had issue with shutter, mechanically broken.

Staff: PV, TS, JK, FK, + users

X-ray delivery:

20 keV, ~ 300-400 uJ, 250 pulses, stable delivery 

Optical Laser:

1030 nm, 850 fs, stable delivery

Achievements / Observations:

Lots of data collection

Issues:

No major issue today

X-ray delivery:

20 keV,  250-400 uJ, 250 pulses, stable delivery

Optical Laser:

1030 nm, 850 fs, stable delivery

Achievements / Observations:

Lots of data collection

Issues:

No major issue today

X-ray delivery:

10 keV, ~ 850 uJ, 128 pulses, tuning was needed for 1 hour 

Optical Laser:

No PP-laser for this week

Achievements / Observations:

Finalized alignment of crystals

Issues:

No major issue today.

Staff: PV, TS, JK + external collaborators 

X-ray delivery:

10 keV, ~ 800 uJ, 128 pulses, tuning was needed for 10 min. 

Optical Laser:

No PP-laser for this week

Achievements / Observations:

Finalized alignment of X-ray setup

Issues:

No major issue today.

X-ray delivery

• 8.3 / 9.3 keV, 1400 uJ pulse energy, 1 hour down time

Optical laser delivery

• NS illumination
• 355 nm pump laser

Achievements/Observations

• PCS finished
• Preparation for the next experiment; mainly 355 nm.

**X-ray delivery**
- 8.3 , 1600 uJ pulse energy

**Optical laser delivery**
- NS illumination
- 355 nm pump laser

**Achievements/Observations**
- Measured/tested various samples and different pump laser delays and illumination delays

**Issues**
- There was some sample that caused clogging in the morning

X-ray delivery

• 8.0 keV, 1600 uJ pulse energy

Optical laser delivery

• NS illumination
• 355 nm pump laser

Achievements/Observations

• Once again measured a lot of runs worth of data today

Issues

• No issues

X-ray delivery

• 8.0 keV, 1300 uJ pulse energy by the end, it lowered during the day

Optical laser delivery

• NS illumination
• 355 nm pump laser

Achievements/Observations

• Once again measured a lot of runs worth of data today

Issues

• No major issue today

X-ray delivery

• 8.0 keV, 1300-1600 uJ pulse energy by the end

Optical laser delivery

• NS illumination
• 355 nm pump laser

Achievements/Observations

• Once again measured a lot of runs worth of data today

Issues

• No major issue today

The status of the FXE shutter in the Public status display DOOCS panel is incorrect. Here appears as opened, when it is actually closed.

X-ray delivery

• 9.3 keV, 1800 uJ pulse energy

• 1 - 202 pulses at 564 kHz

• Poor beam stability overall. Lots of intensity fluctuations and rather long time to recover after change of number of pulses in any beamline.

Optical laser delivery

• 800 nm, 113 pulses, 564 kHz stable delivery

• Illumination laser aligned

Achievements/Observations

• Aligned instrument

• Prepared illumination laser

• Shot PCS sample for a few minutes

Issues

• PCS sample clogged (at filter not nozzle) after a few crystal shots

• A few clogs with nozzle with lyzo, when X-ray were on, even far from the nozzle somehow the splash from the explosion grew on the tip

SPB pop-in monitor was not dricing to the switch when we retracted it to the "out " position with the MDL this morning. This prevented us to use more than two pulses. We have moved the motor one step of 300 um up, which activated the switch and relased the interlock. This should however be fixed so that the "out" position in the MDL works as expected and the motor operates reliably.

X-ray delivery

• up to 202 pulses per train (~1 mJ pulse energy), 0.5 MHz.

Optical laser delivery

• PP laser aligned to the interaction point

Achievements/Observations
Preparation for user beamtime

• x-ray beam aligned and focused
• gotthard II ready
• PP laser aligned and ready
• ns laser aligned and ready
• inline mic aligned
   

X-ray delivery

• up to 202 pulses per train (~1.4 mJ pulse energy), 0.5 MHz.

Optical laser delivery

• OPO issue in the late shift
• PP laser aligned and timed both at the interaction point and in PAM

Achievements/Observations

• gotthard II used and working
• PP laser aligned and timed
• PAM aligned and timed

Issues

• issue with the OPO when we wanted to collect data

To do for next shift

• collect lysozyme for geometry and start user program

Damage on FEL imager was also seen by our morning shift around 7:50am.

SPB/SFX 7955 Day 2

**X-ray delivery**
* up to 202 pulses per train (~1.4 mJ pulse energy), 0.5 MHz.
* A few beam downs toward the end of the shift

**Optical laser delivery**
* 420nm used for sample excitation. timed to 1ps with water jet interaction

**Achievements/Observations**
* x-ray beam de-focused to a few um for data taking
* PP laser aligned and timed
* runs for 1ps pumped data set
* good peak distribution at 11% transmission (100 CVD/ 200 CVD / None / 3200 CVD)
* hit rate better than previous day

**Issues**
* a lot of nozzle exchange
* sample most likely accumulating on the catcher entrance window
* DAMNIT issue with too many queued jobs, fixed by Oleksii (OCD)

**To do for next shift**
* finish power titration and continue with other time points

SPB/SFX 7955 Day 3

X-ray delivery

• up to 202 pulses per train (~1.4 mJ pulse energy), 0.5 MHz.

• One longer down toward the end of the shift

Optical laser delivery

• 420nm used for sample excitation. timed to 1ps with water jet interaction

Achievements/Observations

• x-ray beam de-focused to a few um for data taking

• PP laser aligned and timed

• runs for 1ps, 100ps and 100ns pumped data sets

• hit rate much better (even > 10%) than previous day with small crystals

Issues

• a lot of nozzle exchange in the morning

• DAMNIT issue with too many queued jobs – some of the earlier jobs timed out