Photon Sciences 6th IXS BAT Meeting

The 6th NSLS-II IXS Beamline Advisory Team Meeting
Bldg 817, Room 4, Sept 26th, 2011
Participants:
BAT members:
Clement Burns (WMU) - Chair
Alfred Baron (RIKEN/SPring-8), Sow-Hsin Chen (MIT), John Hill (BNL), Michael Krisch (ESRF), Ho-kwang Mao (Carnegie), Tullio Scopigno (Universita’ Roma), Stephen Shapiro (BNL), Yuri Shvyd’ko (APS).
NSLS-II members:
Qun Shen, Ron Pindak, Andy Broadbent, Yong Cai, Scott Coburn, Alessandro Cunsolo, Jeff Keister, Nalaka Kodituwakku, Alexey Suvorov, Yuriy Stetsko, Kaz Gofron

Main Topics for Discussion:
• Choice of high energy-resolution optics for baseline scope
• Spectrometer design
• Early Science and sample environments

Agenda (8:00am – 5:00pm):

08:00 – 08:20 Breakfast
08:20 – 08:30 Opening remarks and agenda (Clem Burns)
08:30 – 08:45 NSLS-II update (Qun Shen)
08:45 – 09:30 Updates on the beamline development and optics R&D (Yong Cai)
- Latest results of NSLS-II optics R&D
- Choice of high resolution optics for baseline
- Procurement status
- Other updates
09:30 – 10:30 Discussion
- Choice of high resolution optics for baseline
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Spectrometer design and discussion (Scott Coburn)
- Design concept and specifications
11:45 – 12:30 Initial experiments and discussion (Yong Cai)
- Possible early experiments and sample environments
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break (discussion continues during lunch)
13:30 – 15:00 Open discussion (Clem Burns)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 BAT discussion (Clem Burns)
16:30 – 17:00 Close-out Summary (Clem Burns)
17:00 Adjourn