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SwissFEL Beamtime Applications DUE

Category: General
Description:
  • The PSI User Office invites user proposals for the first user run at SwissFEL.
  • SwissFEL is being continuously developed but the proposals must be based on the parameters outlined below on this page
  • After the submission deadline the proposals are evaluated in terms of safety and technical feasibility. Then they are ranked in terms of scientific criteria by the international SwissFEL Proposal Review Committee (PRC). More information about the evaluation procedure is published on Evaluation. The result of this rating is the basis for the beamtime assessment made by SwissFEL.
  • The main proposers are informed by email about the result of the ranking and beamtime assessment.
  • The annual calendar for the proposal evaluation is as seen below.

Schedule for Calls

SwissFEL Call schedule
Experimental Period 2020-I
Call 2019/08/08
Submission deadline 2019/09/15
Start period 2020/01/01
End period 2020/06/30
EVALUATION
 
start: September 16

Current achieved parameters (July 17th , 2019)

  • photon energy: 1.8-12.4 keV (12.7 keV is also possible)
  • typical pulse energies: 200-600 µJ
  • repetition rate: single shot - 25Hz
  • X-ray pulse duration: 50 - 100 fs fwhm
  • X-ray-laser arrival-time jitter: ~ 200 fs fwhm
  • A novel fast scanning option allows varying the photon energy by ±15% in a time span of less than 10 minutes. A variation of pulse energy by ±20% may occur during the scan.


Please note, that due to the early operation phase of the SwissFEL facility, the evolution in 2020 toward advanced parameters is based on best effort. In addition, due to the concurrent buildup of the ATHOS branch, technical feasibility and resource requirements will be strong criteria in the evaluation.

When: Sunday, September 15 2019, 08:00 AM - 5:00 PM (ET) (UTC -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada), Bogota, Lima