Jul 22 – 26, 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

Operational optimizations for TES detectors at a femtosecond X-ray laser

Jul 25, 2019, 5:45 PM
1h 15m
Piazza Città di Lombardia (Milano)

Piazza Città di Lombardia

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Poster Detector readout, signal processing, and related technologies Poster session

Speaker

Charles Titus (Stanford)

Description

A large array of Transition-edge Sensors (TES) is currently in development as an X-ray spectrometer for the Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) at SLAC National Laboratory. LCLS-II is a fast (100 KHz) pulsed X-ray laser that will be almost 1000x brighter than its predecessor, LCLS-I. The combination of high-throughput TES X-ray detectors with this high-luminosity light source will enable us to study the dynamics of chemical reactions with unprecedented resolution. As part of the development process, it has been critical to understand the optimal way to operate a TES detector under extremely high photon fluxes with short pulse times. We will describe the fundamental challenges of pairing a slow microcalorimeter such as the TES with a bright ultrafast X-ray source, and creative solutions to maximize the science reach of LCLS-II. Detailed science projections will be presented along with a comparison to existing X-ray detectors.

Student (Ph.D., M.Sc. or B.Sc.) Y
Less than 5 years of experience since completion of Ph.D Y

Primary authors

Charles Titus (Stanford) Dale Li (SLAC) Dr Hsiao-Mei Cho (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Sang-Jun Lee (SLAC) Kelsey Morgan (University of Colorado Boulder) Daniel Swetz (NIST) Abigail Wessels (University of Colorado Boulder) Joel Ullom (NIST/University of Colorado) Kent Irwin (Stanford)

Presentation materials