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Title:
Novel opportunities for sub-meV inelastic X-ray scattering at high-repetition rate self-seeded X-ray free-electron lasers
Affiliation(s):
EuXFEL staff
Author group:
Instrument MID
Simulation of Photon Fields
Topic:
Abstract:
Inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) is an important tool for studies of equilibrium dynamics in condensed matter. A new spectrometer recently proposed for ultra-high-resolution IXS (UHRIX) has achieved 0.6~meV and 0.25~nm$^{-1}$ spectral and momentum transfer resolutions, respectively. However, further improvements down to 0.1~meV and 0.02~nm$^{-1}$ are required to close the gap in energy-momentum space between high and low frequency probes. We show that this goal can be achieved by further optimizing the X-ray optics and by increasing the spectral flux of the incident X-ray pulses. UHRIX performs best at energies from 5 to 10 keV, where a combination of self-seeding and undulator tapering at the SASE-2 beamline of the European XFEL promises up to a hundred-fold increase in average spectral flux compared with nominal SASE pulses at saturation, or three orders of magnitude more than possible with storage-ring based radiation sources. Wave-optics propagation shows that about $7\times 10^{12}$~ph/s in a $90$-$\mu$eV bandwidth can be achieved on the sample. This will provide unique new possibilities for dynamics studies by IXS.
Imprint:
2015
ISBN:
ISBN 978-3-95450-134-2
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Report number:
arXiv:1508.02632; DESY-15-140
Language(s):
English
Conference information:
37th International Free Electron Laser Conference, FEL 2015, Daejon, 2015-08-23 - 2015-08-28, South Korea
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