TY - JOUR AU - Schlappa, Justine AU - Ghiringhelli, Giacomo AU - Van Kuiken, Benjamin E. AU - Teichmann, Martin AU - Miedema, Piter S. AU - Delitz, Jan Torben AU - Gerasimova, Natalia AU - Molodtsov, Serguei AU - Adriano, Luigi AU - Baranasic, Bernard AU - Broers, Carsten AU - Carley, Robert AU - Gessler, Patrick AU - Ghodrati, Nahid AU - Hickin, David AU - Hoang, Le Phuong AU - Izquierdo, Manuel AU - Mercadier, Laurent AU - Mercurio, Giuseppe AU - Parchenko, Sergii AU - Stupar, Marijan AU - Yin, Zhong AU - Martinelli, Leonardo AU - Merzoni, Giacomo AU - Peng, Ying Ying AU - Reuss, Torben AU - Sreekantan Nair Lalithambika, Sreeju AU - Techert, Simone AU - Laarmann, Tim AU - Huotari, Simo AU - Schroeter, Christian AU - Langer, Burkhard AU - Giessel, Tatjana AU - Buchheim, Jana AU - Gwalt, Grzegorz AU - Sokolov, Andrey AU - Siewert, Frank AU - Buechner, Robby AU - Vaz da Cruz, Vinicius AU - Eckert, Sebastian AU - Liu, Chun-Yu AU - Sohrt, Christian AU - Weniger, Christian AU - Pietzsch, Annette AU - Neppl, Stefan AU - Senf, Friedmar AU - Scherz, Andreas AU - Föhlisch, Alexander TI - The Heisenberg-RIXS instrument at the European XFEL JO - Journal of synchrotron radiation VL - 32 IS - 1 SN - 0909-0495 CY - Chester PB - IUCr M1 - PUBDB-2025-00153 SP - 29 - 45 PY - 2025 AB - Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) is an ideal X-ray spectroscopy method to push the combination of energy and time resolutions to the Fourier transform ultimate limit, because it is unaffected by the core-hole lifetime energy broadening. Also, in pump–probe experiments the interaction time is made very short by the same core-hole lifetime. RIXS is very photon hungry so it takes great advantage from high-repetition-rate pulsed X-ray sources like the European XFEL. The Heisenberg RIXS instrument is designed for RIXS experiments in the soft X-ray range with energy resolution approaching the Fourier and the Heisenberg limits. It is based on a spherical grating with variable line spacing and a position-sensitive 2D detector. Initially, two gratings were installed to adequately cover the whole photon energy range. With optimized spot size on the sample and small pixel detector the energy resolution can be better than 40 meV (90 meV) at any photon energy below 1000 eV with the high-resolution (high-transmission) grating. At the SCS instrument of the European XFEL the spectrometer can be easily positioned thanks to air pads on a high-quality floor, allowing the scattering angle to be continuously adjusted over the 65–145° range. It can be coupled to two different sample interaction chambers, one for liquid jets and one for solids, each state-of-the-art equipped and compatible for optical laser pumping in collinear geometry. The measured performances, in terms of energy resolution and count rate on the detector, closely match design expectations. The Heisenberg RIXS instrument has been open to public users since the summer of 2022. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - 39705248 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001395738600004 DO - DOI:10.1107/S1600577524010890 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/622041 ER -