Prospects for Studies of Exotic, Transient, and Ultradilute Gas-Phase Targets
New capabilities are coming online with the Advanced Light Source, and with the next generation source being planned. Thus, it is timely to plan for these developments. In the very short term, the top-off mode operation and dedicated undulator line are on the horizon, and even more significant are the plans currently being prepared for a “next generation” light source. The proposal for a future source is currently being finalized by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and it appears that a new source will likely have a 5-order-of-magnitude increase in flux with nearly transform-limited bandwidth. Thus, wholly new science will be possible. In particular, the increase in flux – and also the new pulse structure – will enable studies of highly dilute systems of interest in AMO and chemical physics, e.g., ions, radicals, clusters, reactive intermediates, and transient structures. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss novel areas of research with the new short pulses light sources and how the AMO and gas-phase chemical physics community can capitalize on these new capabilities. In particular, we will investigate how to incorporate beamline and endstation functionality that will involve both new and existing users in these new and exciting activities.
Organizers: Nora Berrah and Erwin Poliakoff
Location: ALS