Meeting Report: Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiometry

As part of the 2006 NSLS/CFN Users' Meeting, an all-day workshop on the topic of Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Radiometry was held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on May 17 to address NSLS users with an interest in absolute photon rate measurements. For the purposes of this workshop, the VUV range was defined broadly as the range of photon energies requiring ring-contiguous vacuum (5–5000 eV). Also, both absolute (i.e. radiometry) and relative (e.g. reflectometry) instrumentation and results were discussed. The workshop included presenters from some of the world's most capable synchrotron-based radiometry facilities, including PTB at BESSY-2, ALS / CXRO, SURF-III at NIST, and both facility and Participating Research Team beamlines at NSLS. There were 8 speakers and roughly 45 total attendees. Speakers included Franz Weber (Livermore), Rob Vest (NIST), John Seely (NRL), Frank Scholze (PTB), Steve Hulbert (NSLS), Eric Gullikson (ALS), Tony Kuczewski (NSLS) and Jeff Keister (NSLS).     

FOREWORD

<正>The "International Workshop on e+e- collisions from phi to psi" (PHIPSI09), was held at Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, from Tuesday, October 13 to Friday,     

A high aperture beamline for vacuum ultraviolet circular dichroism on the srs

The three-day international workshop Actinide-XAS-2006 was held at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), Germany, from September 18–20, 2006. Actinide-XAS-2006 was the fourth workshop on speciation, techniques, and facilities for radioactive materials at synchrotron light sources. The Actinide-XAS series addresses the specialized field of the application of synchrotron techniques for investigating radioactive materials and is a forum for teaching and scientific discussion in this field, thereby strengthening existing and establishing new transnational cooperative scientific networks. The first and second workshops, Actinide-XAS-1998 and Actinide-XAS-2000, were held in Grenoble at the ESRF. The third and last workshop, Actinide-XAS-2004, was held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.     

“X-ray Echo Spectroscopy: Opportunities and Feasibility” Workshop

A two-day workshop on “X-ray Echo Spectroscopy: Opportunities and Feasibility” was held at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory, USA, September 9–10, 2016, attracting 42 attendees. The focus of the workshop was to explore the scientific potential and technical feasibility of the recently proposed X-ray echo spectroscopy and to discuss a path for its R&D and realization.     

Preface

Dynamics and Structure of Critically Stable Quantum Few-Body Systems was held at Les Houches, France, on October 8–12, 2001. The idea of the workshop originates in the observation that almost all subfields of physics have interesting problems using very similar methods to study few-body problems at the edge of stability. The usual meetings do not often appeal to the interdisciplinary aspects of the common concepts and techniques. A similar workshop was held at Trento in February 1997. The present workshop stretched from nano-scales over quantum chemistry, atomic, molecular, and nuclear to mathematical physics. The main theme was the properties of weakly bound quantum states and resonances near threshold. Explicitly emphasized topics in the announcement were: 1. Electron and positron-molecular systems. 2. Halos in atomic, molecular, and nuclear physics. 3. Coulomb breakup above threshold. 4. The four-body problem. 5. Few-body correlations in N-body systems: nuclei or Bose condensates. 6. Complex rotations to study resonances. 7. The use of zero-range interactions. 8. Inequalities confining properties like binding energy and radius. 9. Two-dimensional systems. 10. Time-dependent problems near instability. The current interest was highlighted during the workshop when the Nobel prize in physics for 2001 was awarded for making Bose-Einstein condensates. The topics are rather practical although they at first sight may appear to be rather theoretical. This was confirmed during the workshop with abundant application on realistic examples and direct discussions of experimental results. Adequate representation of the many subfields and topics requires a minimum number of participants but on the other hand this number must be small enough to avoid fragmentation into subfields. We estimate that maximum information is exchanged with between 30 and 45 participants. Including the organizers there were 34 participants, all invited, from Brazil, USA, and 12 different European countries. Essentially all presented oral contributions on topics of their own choice within the main theme. This left the emphasis of the workshop to the latest interests of the participants. One page abstracts were available at the beginning of the workshop. We are indebted to a number of sponsors for their support: European Science Foundation (ESF), Conseil Régional de la Région Rh?ne-Alpes (for the Proceedings), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et Physique des Particules (IN2P3), Commissariat à l’énergie Atomique (CEA), Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (UJF), Institut des Sciences Nucléaires Grenoble (ISN), Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Marseille (CPT). We also acknowledge the help from the Les Houches organization. The intimate atmosphere, the modern accommodation, and the beautiful surroundings provided a perfect framework. We appraise the help by Anne-Marie Guglielmini for the secretariat and Jocelyne Riffault for the web pages, both from ISN, Grenoble. We want to thank the unusually enthusiastic participants. Their engagement made the workshop both very enjoyable and scientifically beneficial. We can recommend more of this type of cross disciplinary communication and collaboration. We greatly appreciate the privilege of having these proceedings published by Few-Body Systems, this providing a rapid and widespread diffusion. We thank Prof. W. Plessas and Mrs. S. Schilgerius for their efficient help. The Organizers: J. Carbonell, P. Duclos, A. S. Jensen, J.-M. Richard     

Radiometry with synchrotron radiation at the PTB laboratory at Bessy ii

A workshop on Engineering Applications of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation took place on September 13–14, 2004, at the ESRF in Grenoble, France. The workshop brought together around 100 leading scientists and engineers who discussed the application of synchrotron X-ray and neutron central facilities for engineering problems. The event was organized by the FaME38 materials engineering facility at ILL-ESRF. FaME38 is jointly funded by the UK research council EPSRC and ILL-ESRF and provides support to enable materials engineers to make the best use of the advanced synchrotron X-ray and neutron scientific facilities at ILL-ESRF.

The programme included formal presentations, a poster session, informal workgroup sessions and an opportunity to meet staff at the ILL-ESRF materials science beamlines. The formal presentations were structured into three sessions entitled Progress, Complementarity, and Applications chaired by Giovanni Bruno (ILL), Thomas Buslaps (ESRF), and Darren Hughes (FaME38).     

Nanopowder Characterization: Challenges and Future Directions

This article summarizes the conclusions of a workshop organized at the National Institute of Standards and nobreak Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, October 4–5, 2001. The workshop was focused on the strengths and limitations of the techniques currently used for creating stable dispersions of nanoparticles and measuring the size distribution of powders in the nanosize range. Several emerging and alternative techniques with potential for use in particle size measurement in the nanometer range were advanced. Future needs for procedural and instrumental techniques and standards were identified.     

Diffraction enhanced imaging of soft tissues

The APS hosted a two-day workshop on Catalysis Research at the APS on September 12-13, 2005. The goal of the workshop was to evaluate current catalysis-related research at the APS and to plan future directions. The outcome of the meeting will be a report with recommendations to promote new, and support current, catalysis research at the APS. The workshop was attended by 82 participants representing industry, national laboratories, and universities.     

Workshop Nanoscience C: Controlling interactions in complex materials

The second international workshop of the Soochow University—Western University Centre for Synchrotron Radiation Research took place at Soochow University, Suzhou, China, on May 6–8, 2014. The host organizations for this workshop were Soochow University in China and the University of Western Ontario (also known as Western University) in Canada.     

DMLS 2011: Fourth International Workshop on Diamonds for Modern Light Sources

The fourth in a series of workshops devoted to the use of diamonds at synchrotrons and free electron lasers (FELs) was held on May 5-6, 2011, at the Advanced Photon Source. The previous DMSL workshop was held in Japan in 2008. The workshop was supported in part by Argonne National Laboratory; Applied Diamond, Inc.; SINMAT, Inc.; and elementsix, Ltd. The scope was to assess : 1) the status, size, quality, and availability of synthetic type IIa diamonds; 2) the status of CVD diamonds; 3) applications for beamline optics; 4) applications for beam position monitors (BPMs) and detectors; 5) applications at FELs; and 6) novel applications, such as for an X-ray free electron laser oscillator (XFELO). On May 5, Linda Young (APS/XSD) gave the workshop welcome. There were three sessions on each of the two days. A website was created and will be kept live where the detailed age-nda and list of speakers will remain available (http://www.aps.anl.gov/News/Conferences/2011/DMLS). As part of the session on BPMs and detectors, there were several speakers from outside the light source community, which demonstrated that there is a larger science audience for these applications than just light sources. Highlights of the workshop include: 1) reports of supplier facilities for thinning and polishing; 2) reports on tests of supplier-provided bonds to CVD cooling manifolds; 3) a report of more than 99% reflectivity from diamond for hard X-rays, significant for XFELO feasibility, measured at the APS; 4) a report on thermal expansion measurements at low temperatures made at the APS (no negative thermal expansion, thermal expansion below 1e-9); 5) a report from Brookhaven National Laboratory on substantial progress in diamond beam flux monitors (BPMs), and fast detectors; 6) a presentation on plans for a self-seeding at LCLS with diamond crystals. A synopsis of each technical session follows below.     

Workshop on Photon and Neutron Applications to Biology and Nanoscale Systems

The vibrant state of collaboration between Australian and Italian synchrotron researchers was clearly demonstrated at the sixth bilateral Italian-Australian workshop on May 20–21, 2014. Held at the Australian Synchrotron, the workshop attracted close to 100 participants, who enjoyed presentations on subjects as diverse as advances in photon sources and instrumentation, food science, anti-bacterial and non-stick surfaces, organic electronics, and cancer therapy.     

Brief of BES-Belle-CLEO-BaBar 2007 joint workshop on charm physics

The Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences organized a workshop to establish closer contacts between experimentalists (theorists) involved in the studies of charm physics from both c and B communities. The workshop covers talks of physics analysis and its results from four electron-positron colliding experiments (BES, Belle, CLEO and BaBar). Presentations at the workshop are organized in the following sessions : (1) Hadron spectroscopy and new resonances; (2) D0-D0 mixing; (3) Charmonium decays; (4) Charm hadronic and (semi-)lcptonic decays; (5) QCD at low energy and τphysics; (6) Partial wave analysis and Dalitz analysis, MC generator and Tools; (7) Detector upgrade.     

XRMS 2008 Workshop at DESY

From January 23–24, 2008, the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) provided a forum for more than 75 scientists from 12 countries to discuss recent developments in the investigation of magnetic solids with synchrotron radiation. The framework for this meeting was the International Workshop for X-ray Spectroscopy of Magnetic Solids (XRMS 2008). The XRMS workshop series was established in 2000 when the first meeting was held at BESSY (Berlin, Germany). It then continued annually or bi-annually, always in conjunction with a users meeting at one of the European synchrotron radiation facilities. In this year, the XRMS workshop preceded the HASYLAB Users Meeting at DESY on January 25.     

Second User Workshop on High-Power Lasers at the Linac Coherent Light Source

The second international workshop on the physics enabled by the unique combination of high-power lasers with the world-class Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) free-electron X-ray laser beam was held in Stanford, CA, on October 7–8, 2014. The workshop was co-organized by UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratories. More than 120 scientists, including 40 students and postdoctoral scientists who are working in high-intensity laser-matter interactions, fusion research, and dynamic high-pressure science came together from North America, Europe, and Asia. The focus of the second workshop was on scientific highlights and the lessons learned from 16 new experiments that were performed on the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument since the first workshop was held one year ago.     

BioCD-2008: Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Proteins and Other Biomolecules

A weeklong workshop focusing on circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy using both conventional and synchrotron sources (SRCD) was presented at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory from June 23–27, 2008.     

Imaging of antiferromagnetic domains by linear magnetic dichroism in photoemission microscopy of nio(100)

On September 19-21, 2005, the Synchrotron Environmental Science III (SES-III) conference was held at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), in Upton, New York. Continuing the tradition established by previous SES conferences held at Argonne National Lab, SES-III brought together the diverse community of scientists who apply synchrotron-based radiation techniques to study the biological and geochemical aspects of both local and global environmental issues. The conference included two days of topical sessions that addressed the application of innovative synchrotron methods in environmental science along with applications in bioavailability and remediation science. The third day included a workshop on microbeam methods. Attendees reported on environmental science activities conducted at synchrotron facilities worldwide.     

External noise and its interaction with spatial degrees of freedom in nonlinear dissipative systems

A brief introduction to the field is given together with an overview of the lectures given at the workshop on External Noise and its Interaction with Spatial Degrees of Freedom in Nonlinear Dissipative Systems organized by the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos, March 28–31, 1988. It is hoped that the publication of papers presented at the workshop in a single issue of theJournal of Statistical Physics will help draw attention to the recent developments in this rapidly area of nonequilibrium phenomena.     

India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)

We present some physics possibilities with an iron calorimeter detector (ICAL) and a status report on the feasibility study to construct such a detector at a future possible India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). This talk was given at the workshop on high energy physics phenomenology, WHEPP-8, in Jan. 2004, at IIT Bombay.     

前言

The 17th International Workshop on ECR Ion Sources and Their Applications was held in Lanzhou,China on September 17—21,2006 at the conference hall of Institute of Modern Physics (IMP).IMP was honored to host the workshop. We had a total of 70 attendees from 16 countries.There were 32 oral presentations and 26 posters during the workshop. The scientific program focused on 8 oral sessions and 2 poster sessions which cover the following topics:Superconducting ECRIS;New developments and status report;New sources,new concepts and ideas;ECR plasma physics and modeling; Ion beam extraction,transport and diagnostics;Radioactive ion beam production and ECRIS applications.The workshop     

Infrared Microspectroscopy: A Molecular Probe with Micron Resolution

The 4^th International Workshop on Infrared Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Accelerator Based Sources (WIRMS 2007) was held from September 25 to 29, 2007, at the Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center in Japan. This was the first WIRMS workshop to be held in Asia, following the highly fruitful workshops at Porquerolles (France, 2001), Lake Tahoe (USA, 2003) and Rathen (Germany, 2005). As such, it showcased some exemplary science from that region, as well as highlights from the rest of the world. The growth of the field and increased sophistication of the facilities and applications were very evident.