1. LCLS Studies of Laser Initiated Dynamics Jorgen Larsson, David Reis, Thomas Tschentscher, and Kelly Gaffney provided LUSI management with preliminary Specifications on February 2, 2006 I have provided you with a print out of the specifications

2. Defining the Scope of Pump-Probe Endstation Is this where multi-shot imaging will be performed? Where will intense x-ray pump – x-ray probe experiments be performed? Will pulsed magnetic field experiments be performed here? Will all general scattering experiments be performed in this endstation? - Where will x-ray pump – x-ray probe experiments be conducted? - Will imaging experiments be conducted in this endstation? - Will pulsed magnetic field experiments be done here? - Will gas phase, cluster, and UHV/surface experiments be performed here? - Where will the soft x-ray pump probe experiments be conducted?

3. Core Capability for Pump-Probe Experiments Contained in the LOI X-ray scattering probes of sturctural dynamics in condensed phases - This will include diffuse scattering measurements of structure factors in the liquid phase - Diffuse scattering in crystals - Bragg and Laue scattering in crystals Hard x-ray emission spectroscopy -Initially focused on non-resonant XES - Extended to XANES and RIXS X-ray pump studies to be probed by x-rays or laser pulses

4. Beam Splitting Monochromator Asymmetric Bragg geometry will lead to temporal pulse broadening Cannot preserve full LCLS intensity – need to maintain direct beam capability - This presents the potential problem of needing to reproducibly move the table with a beam diameter precision Needs to cover a large energy range, including 3 rd harmonic -Ideally 4 keV to 20 keV, low range for XANES and high range for liquid scattering

5. LCLS Diagnostics LCLS Pulse synchronization diagnostics -Implementing electro-optic sampling from the beginning is essential - Developing x-ray laser pulse cross correlation methods needs to be integrated into the LCLS commissioning LCLS Pulse energy diagnostics - With beam splitting monochromator set-up, metal foil calibration should be sufficient -With direct beam studies the e - beam energy diagnostic has been proposed as a measure of the relative energy shot-to-shot LCLS Pulse energy diagnostics -This is essential for diffuse scattering experiments, either in solids or liquids, where the pump induced change will often be a small fraction of the total scatter - For liquids, normalizing to the solvent molecular structure factor at high-Q provides an alternative way of observing relative changes. This makes the 3 rd harmonic essential to these studies Optical Laser diagnostics - Online measures of pulse position, spectrum, energy, and duration will be important

6. Table rails for doing direct beam and displaced beam experiments. Motion needs to be high precision. x-ray slits x-ray BPM Dual crystal x-ray monochromator with large horizontal displacement for running in parallel with far hall. 10 -3 and 10 -4 resolving power from 4 to 16 keV Ability to work with either the fundamental or the 3 rd harmonic 1.5 m Five-circle goniometer with 1 m diameter capable of accommodating liquid, crystal, and powder samples, and potentially a small vacuum chamber. Needs to be compatible with sample heating and cooling. Laser table: 4’X12’ Vacuum up to the x-ray slits X-ray table: 5’X15’ Room 9.5 X 10 m 2 Overhead view of laser pump x-ray probe hutch Monochromator and CCD array for simultaneous UV to near IR light probing of system dynamics Mono+CCD x-ray emission spectrometer

7. direct beam displaced, monochromatic beam 1.5 m ‘1-D detector’, though the x-ray detector I would work array of cylindrically bent analyzer crystals Side view of emission spectrometer set-up

8. Significance of Soft X-ray Probing of Laser Induced Dynamics Photoinduced charge transfer at interfaces critical to key DOE programs -Photovoltaics - Photoelectrochemical production of hydrogen Presents the opportunity to develop non-linear spectroscopy - surface selective probes of electronic structure and potentially surface chemistry -potential for x-ray laser cross correlation Photo-doped studies of carrier dynamics in correlated electron systems -Use L-edge spectroscopy for studying transient electronic structure in metal oxides

9. Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Photovoltaic Cell Schematic of cell time scale for carrier generation Asbury et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 4545 (2001).Hagfeldt and Grätzel Acc. Chem. Res. 33, 269 (2000).

10. Phonon vs. Electron Driven Catalysis – Oxidation of CO on Ru(0001) Bonn et al. Science 285, 1042 (1999).

11. Photo-doping Studies of Metal Insulator Transition in VO 2 Cavalleri et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 67405 (2005) and Cavalleri et al. Phys. Rev. B 70, R161102 (2004).