Speaker: Fulvio Parmigiani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
Program Description
Starting from the archetypal FERMI externally seeded FEL, recent theoretical and experimental progress has shown the possibility of producing fully coherent, variable polarization and tunable, soft-‐X-‐ray, ultra-‐short pulses at high repetition rate.
This ultimate achievement will unlock the gate for performing X-‐ray-‐based experiments that are qualitatively different from those available at any current or planned X-‐ray source.
Here we will review the experiments and the ideas that represent the science frontier in soft X-‐ray, time-‐resolved spectroscopy, coherent imaging and scattering experiments.
These studies will lead to an understanding of fundamental dynamics, occurring on the ultrafast time and nanometer spatial scales, needed for addressing a broad range of science essential for resolving our complex and long-‐term energy challenges, environmentally urgent questions and demanding problems in bioscience and novel materials.
