1–6 Jun 2025
Taipei International Convention Center (TICC)
Asia/Taipei timezone

Conclusions of the UK XFEL conceptual design and options analysis study

MOPB042
2 Jun 2025, 16:00
2h
Exhibiton Hall A _Bear (TWTC)

Exhibiton Hall A _Bear

TWTC

Poster Presentation MC2.A06 Free Electron Lasers (FELs) Monday Poster Session

Speaker

David Dunning (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Description

UK XFEL is a multi-stage project to pursue ‘next-generation’ XFEL capabilities, either through developing a new facility in the UK or by investing at existing machines. The project’s Science Case envisages a step-change increase in the number of simultaneous experiments, with transform-limited (‘laser-like’) x-rays across a wide range of pulse durations and photon energies (up to ~20 keV) being delivered together with an array of synchronised sources, at high repetition rate to approximately ten FELs (evenly spaced pulses at approximately 100 kHz per experiment, with flexibility). Conversely, a subset of applications require increased pulse energy and higher photon energies at low repetition rate or in short bursts. The project is now in the final year of its three-year conceptual design and options analysis phase, in which it has produced a conceptual design to efficiently meet these requirements, as well as conducting an analysis of the costs, socio-economic factors, and sustainability of the different investment options. The conclusions of this study are expected to be of general interest to the community.

Region represented Europe
Paper preparation format LaTeX

Author

David Dunning (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Co-authors

Deepa Angal-Kalinin (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Edward Snedden (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Paul Aden (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

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