Frontier experimental research at LCLS/MEC
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Abstract
Since the advent of a new technique using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), an x-ray free electron laser source, MEC instrument offers new experimental-platforms combining LCLS with high power optical lasers for high energy density science. The LCLS has $\ge $3 mJ per 60 fs pulse enabling an intensity x-ray beam between 4 keV -9.5 keV to be focused onto a small spot $\sim$2 micron at MEC. The research areas that MEC instrument will address include equation of state under extreme conditions, behavior of materials under high-pressure, and phenomena of shock compressed matter. In this talk, we present the details of the MEC instrument and highlight several experiments.
*MEC instrument is funded and operated by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Fusion Energy Science. LCLS is an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science by Stanford University.
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