Science for a New Class of Soft X-ray Light Sources

October 8 - 10, 2007  |  Berkeley, California

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This is a small workshop in Berkeley, California that is being held to develop the scientific case for a new class of soft X-ray light sources being contemplated in the US and elsewhere.  The workshop will be held Monday through Wednesday Morning, October 8-10, 2007, and we anticipate roughly 50 attendees from both the U. S. and abroad. 

The parameters of the class of light sources we are addressing are bounded primarily by a maximum photon energy of ~3keV.  The pulse duration could be from attoseconds to picoseconds – with as many photons as desired and with any repetition rate.  The longitudinal coherence properties of the pulses (chirp, etc.) would also be controllable.  The results of this workshop will help to define which parts of this parameter space should be targeted in the design of these sources, as well as what kind of science they would initially address. 

Each of the first two days will have morning plenary talks, with breakout sessions in the afternoons.  The breakout sessions will begin with 10-minute presentations from a small panel and continue with a general discussion of the scientific challenges in a particular discipline.  The conclusions (and speculations) of the breakout sessions will be written up as part of the formal report of the workshop.  A final close out discussion involving all of the attendees will occur on the morning of the final day.

There will be a total of only 8 to 10 plenary talks.  Each of them will last 30-35 minutes followed by a short discussion.  We are asking each plenary speaker to survey the most important scientific challenges in his or her opinion that a new experimental resource in the soft X-ray and VUV region might be able to address.  Thus, each speaker is being asked to set the stage for a discussion in the smaller breakout sessions in the afternoon, on one of the five areas:

1. Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
2. Chemical Physics
3. Correlated Materials
4. Magnetization and Spin Dynamics
5. Nanoscience and Coherence

In each of the breakout sessions there will be a panel of five or six attendees asked to give a 10-15 minute presentation sharing their perspectives of the scientific challenges in the area addressed by the breakout, and we are also asking these presenters to be speculative and provocative in their comments.