April 1, 2014 Photon Science Research at SLAC Physics and Applied Physics Graduate Student Open House

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Hodgson Pianetta Nilsson Bucksbaum Gaffney Doniach WeisSolomon Mao ClemensShen Brunger Stohr Hedman Brown Lindenberg Photon Science Faculty: Who We Are Byer Devereaux Reis Hastings Martinez Kao Norskov Hwang Cui Huang HoltkampMelosh Raghu Wakatsuki Galayda Raghu Irwin

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Stanford Students Helping Commission the LCLS Students integral to the research at SLAC Helping to commission 2-d hard x-ray detection at LCLS

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, SLAC Physics and Applied Physics Stanford Golf Course Where We Are 10 minute bike ride from Varian

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Three Stanford Institutes at SLAC, a Synchrotron, the world’s first X-ray free electron laser and more… Ultrafast science, from attoseconds to picoseconds, terahertz to x-rays. The science of energy-related materials. Active programs in Materials, Structural Biology, Chemistry, Accelerator Physics Ultrafast and high field x-ray laser-matter interactions; x-ray imaging. Atomic-scale design of catalysts for chemical transformations.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, revolves around the generation and utilization of X-rays Research in Photon Science…

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Source: LCLS – The First Experiments atoms move in ps Ultrafast x-rays probe structural dynamics

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Precision x-ray measurements in: Condensed matter physics biophysics Molecular and chemical physics Molecular electronics April 1, ring SSRL – SPEAR3 Third Generation Synchrotron 32 beamlines serving 1,600 scientists a year

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, LCLS: the world’s 1 st x-ray laser X-ray laser mJ 0.4 – 9.5 keV fs Peak brightness billion times higher than previous x-ray sources

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Introduction to Research Opportunities in Photon Science

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, FEL R&D SLAC LCLS is currently the world’s brightest x-ray source You have the opportunities to make it even brighter and impact the design of next-generation FELs Many opportunities to pursue theoretical, computational and experimental research Seeding can improve its spectral brightness SASE spectrum Seeded spectrum Zhirong Huang Jerry Hastings John Galayda Norbert Holtkamp

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Emergent Properties of Quantum Materials Tom Devereax Harold Hwang Chi-Chang Kao Srivinash Raghu Z.X. Shen Momentum Energy EFEF Kink at Lattice mode Angle-Resolved Photoemission (ARPES)

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Ultrafast Photonic and Electronic Properties David Reis Aaron Lindenberg Jo Stöhr Tom Devereax Z.X. Shen Ultrafast phase transitions in nanomaterials

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Dynamics in Atomic, Molecular, and Chemical Physics Attosecond dynamics in strong fields Theory of quantum chemical dynamics Phil Bucksbaum Todd Martinez Anders Nilsson Kelly Gaffney

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Diffraction dataElectron density Molecular model of protein Protein crystal Allows study of very complex biological systems simply not accessible at the molecular level by any other approach Wide ranging impact - from understanding basic biology to design of drugs Macromolecular Crystallography – An Atomic Resolution view of the Biological World Keith Hodgson Britt Hedman Axel Brunger Bill Weiss Soichi Wakatsuki

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, LCLS: Advances in Bioimaging Methods and Applications LCLS x-rays revealed the atomic-scale structure of an enzyme key to the survival of the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness Keith Hodgson Axel Brunger Bill Weiss Soichi Wakatsuki Seb Doniach

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, Jens Norskov Anders Nilsson Gordon Brown Interfacial Chemistry relevant to Energy and the Environment Materials by design: predicting catalyst function with ab initio theory

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory April 1, How to find us: slac.stanford.edu home.slac.stanford.edu/photonScience Faculty.html