German Conference for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons and Ion Beams at Large Facilities

The new URSA-PQ instrument for molecular photoenergy conversion at FLASH

18 Sept 2018, 11:15

15m

MW 1801 (Fakultät für Maschinenwesen)

Talk MS3 Novel developments in time resolved techniques Micro symposium 3

Speaker

Markus Guehr (Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam)

Description

We present the new URSA-PQ (Ultraschnelle Roentgenspektroskopie zur Abfrage der Photoenergiekonversion in Quantensystemen) instrument for the FLASH free electron laser in Hamburg.
The instrument design is versatile and many different sources as well as detectors can be inserted, as the chamber adheres to CAMP instrument standard sizes. In its base version, a vacuum chamber with a magnetic bottle electron spectrometer, also capable of measuring ions, presents the main detector. A capillary oven will evaporate a solid molecular target creating a high local pressure at the interaction region of an optical pulse and the free electron laser x-ray pulse.
The instrument is ready for user beamtime from second half of 2019 on and its progress can be followed on http://exp-quantum.org/ursa-pq.