X-ray light sources have evolved from their traditional role as unique and powerful sources of energy-tunable and time-resolved electromagnetic radiation into nucleation sites for novel science. Currently, light sources provide singular and indispensable capabilities for advancing science and technology in many scientific fields. These special sessions will bring together facility principals and scientific leaders, as well as early career scientists, to showcase the most recent and powerful developments at these facilities, as well as plans for facility upgrades and future directions in experimentation. Specifically, the sessions will examine in detail the new possibilities for science that can be done in the tender X-ray with existing and future beamlines. The overall coherence characteristics of the upgraded light sources offer new and substantial opportunities for unique experimental design and time-resolving measurements. These sessions will showcase the best and most impactful recent experiments built upon the unique characteristics of light sources, such as high energy resolution fluorescence detection, spectromicroscopy, ambient–pressure photoelectron spectroscopy, hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and their key roles in contributing innovation to societally important science issues such as clean energy production, economic competitiveness, and general national security. Shared sessions will be with Applied Surface Science, Magnetic Interfaces/Nanostructures, and several Topic Areas – Theory for Surface Processes and Spectroscopies, Laboratory-Based Ambient–Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy; and Actinide and Rare Earths.
LS+AC+AS+LX+MI+TH-ThA: Facility Upgrades and Recent Capability Development
- Alexander Ditter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Combining Focused Ion Beam Sectioning, Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy, and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization to Reveal Acrtinide Chemical Speciation at the Nanoscale”
- Jonathan Lang, Argonne National Laboratory, “The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade: A Transformative Tool for Understanding Material Structure.”
- Andreas Scholl, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “The Impact of Upgraded High-Brightness Synchrotron Light sources on the Chemical Speciation of Nanoscale Heterogeneous Aggregates and Transformations”
LS+AC+LX+MI+TH-ThM: Tender X-ray Science and Time-Resolved Studies
- Robert Schoenlein, Linac Coherent Light Source – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, “New Insight Into Excited-State Chemical Dynamics Using Ultrafast X-Rays: Recent Highlights, Future Opportunities & Development Plans at LCLS”
- Dimosthenis Sokaras, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, “High-Energy-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy and Actinides Research at SLAC”
- Tonya Vitova, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal, Germany, “Developments of High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopic Tools for Probing Structural Properties of Actinide System from the Metal and Ligand Perspective”
- Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory, “Attosecond Studies of Radiolysis at XFELs”