4gls - the UK’s
4th Generation
Light Source
Information
and Interaction Meeting
for Potential Users
Daresbury Laboratory ~
Monday July4th 2005
The recent announcement of funding for the Technical Design Report for 4GLS represents a milestone in the development of this exciting new facility.
Second Announcement and Draft Programme
4GLS will be a world-leading photon facility to enable a broad range of outstanding science programmes by the UK and international communities. It will involve superconducting linac technology with energy recovery and there will be a suite of light sources – spontaneous SR sources ( i.e. traditional SR but in more intense, shorter bursts), stimulated sources ( i.e. free electron lasers) and combinations of these sources with each other and with conventional lasers. The photon energy range covered will be from the Soft Xray to the Terahertz. These tailored pulse combinations will allow researchers to access the dynamics and kinetics of processes previously inaccessible; for example to study real time molecular conformational changes and chemical reactions on timescales down to tens of fs in short-lived, nanostructured or ultra-dilute systems.
4GLS is the leading energy recovery proposal in Europe and the most comprehensive in terms of utilisation of combined sources. It is complementary to TESLA XFEL, to table-top lasers and to third generation sources available to the UK research community i.e. ESRF, SRS (now) and DLS (near future). 4GLS will be a multi-user facility utilising the strengths of undulator sources, capturing the potential of FELs and harnessing the advantages of combining both.
- The purpose of the meeting is to inform, and consult with, potential users on the design of 4GLS.
- A number of international experts will give short presentations describing examples of experiments enabled by this source and not feasible with 3 rd Generation Light Sources.
- Discussion sessions will be set up to ensure that the evolving aspirations of the user community, originally encapsulated in the science case, continue to be covered as far as possible as the detailed design parameters are confirmed.
Draft Programme »
The meeting will take place at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4
4AD, Cheshire.
Monday July 4th 2005, Start 10:00 - Close 17:30.
Refreshments and
lunch will be provided.
There is no meeting fee.
Please email Marie White m.a.white@dl.ac.uk to register.
