Conference Presentation

PUBDB-2024-05761

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Decking, W. (Corresponding author)XFEL.EU*DESY* ; Tschentscher, T.XFEL.EU*

2024

Abstract: The European XFEL has been in operation since 2017. It features a superconducting linear accelerator capable of achieving a maximum energy of 17.5 GeV. The accelerator can deliver up to 27,000 electron bunches per second, distributed into ten equidistant short bursts, each lasting 600 microseconds. It simultaneously serves three FEL undulators, covering photon energy ranges from 300 eV to 30 keV, with pulse energies in the millijoule range. In addition to standard SASE operation, the facility offers hard X-ray self-seeding, two-color operation, variable polarized soft X-rays, and ultra-short photon pulses down to the sub-femtosecond range.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Koordination des XFEL-Beschleunigers (MXL)

Research Program(s):

1. 621 - Accelerator Research and Development (POF4-621) (POF4-621)
2. 6G13 - Accelerator of European XFEL (POF4-6G13) (POF4-6G13)

Experiment(s):

1. Facility (machine) XFEL

Appears in the scientific report 2024

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