1. The Transition to User Operations
John Arthur – LCLS Expt’l Facilities Div
May 14, 2009

2. LCLS Organization LCLS Director Accelerator Systems Div
Dale Knutson
Accelerator Systems Div
John Seeman
operate accelerator for science
Experimental Facilities Div
Jochen Schneider
operate instruments for science
Business Div
Cindy Lowe
Engineering Physics Div
David Schultz
Strategic Projects Div
John Galayda
LCLS Construction
LUSI

3. Division of responsibility
ASD responsibility
Undulator Hall
XFD responsibility
Near Experimental Hall
Front End Enclosure
Far Experimental Hall

4. Experimental Facilities Division (XFD)

5. Experimental Facilities Division Tasks
Manage safe operations in LCLS experimental areas
Manage LCLS user program
Maintain and upgrade X-ray instrumentation
Enable good user science; initiate in-house research

6. Current XFD Priorities
LCLS Construction: Installation in FEE, Hutch 1
Augment scientific and support staff
Create structure for safe operations
Begin User program
LUSI: Accelerate schedule

7. Two-phase installation
FEE installation plan
Two-phase installation
Phase 1
Solid
Attenuators
Gas Attenuator
Calorimeter
Beam Direction
Slit
Gas Detectors
K-Mono
5 mm collimator
Direct Imager
(Scintillator)
FEL Offset Mirror Systems
Phase 2

8. FEE installation details
Phase 1 includes all X-ray diagnostics
Most items shipped to SLAC from LLNL, being installed
Most wiring done, about to begin testing
First beam by end of May
Phase 2 includes mirrors
Install most component in May
Beam-alignment cameras installed in late June

9. LCLS Offset Mirror Systems
eV to Hutch 1
HOMS: Hard x-ray Offset Mirror System
SOMS: Soft x-ray Offset Mirror System
insertable
eV to Hutch 2
Shadow Wall
Wall 2
insertable
eV to Hutch 3-6

10. The first two LCLS instruments
AMO
Soft X-ray beamline without monochromator, for high-field experiments
Funded by LCLS Construction
Installation June 2009
Commissioning July 2009
SXR
Soft X-ray beamline with monochromator, for materials science
Funded by SXR Consortium
Installation January 2010
Commissioning March 2010

11. XFD began 2009 with some staff in place
XFD staffing
XFD began 2009 with some staff in place
J. Schneider, J. Hastings, J. Arthur (upper management)
H. Tompkins (NEH Area Manager)
P. Stefan, S. Moeller (diagnostics physicists)
N. van Bakel (detector physicist)
J. Bozek (AMO scientist)
D. Fritz, A. Robert, S. Boutet, Y. Feng (LUSI scientists)
Matrix support from Laser group, Controls group, DAQ group, Rad Physics
A total of about 20 people equal to 12 FTE

12. New staff supporting XFD early operations
XFD staffing
New staff supporting XFD early operations
Z. Van Hoover (XFD Safety Officer)
J. Bringetto (XFD Documentation Specialist)
H. Kamil (LCLS User Admin)
C. Bostedt (AMO scientist)
D. Rich, J-C Castagna, M. Holmes (operations engineers)
Coming soon, needed for AMO commissioning
Floor Coordinators (interviewing now, 5 to be hired)
Coming soon, not essential for AMO commissioning
Additional technicians
Administrator
Additional scientists

13. New XFD Operations Structure
Strong ties between XFD and ASD
ASD operating structure used as a model for XFD
Preparing key processes and documentation
XFD directives: describe roles/responsibilities and prescribed actions
XFD training plan and training records plan
SAD, ASE to include NEH
Instrument Readiness Review (IRR) process for adding capability to LCLS experimental area incrementally

14. Timeline to approval for experimental ops
May
Install FEE instrumentation
Hire remaining staff, prepare processes and documentation
June
X-rays in FEE, commission diagnostics
Install AMO instrument
Prepare for ARR
Accelerator Readiness Review June 30
Validate operational readiness process, including IRR process
July
Instrument Readiness Review for Hutch 1 and AMO instrument
Resolve any final issues
X-rays to AMO, begin instrument commissioning

15. LCLS User Program
Goal: safe, efficient operation promoting the best science
LCLS will be a DOE-BES User Facility
Access through proposal/review process
LCLS scientific staff frequently collaborate with users, also maintain independent research programs

16. User Program Management
LCLS and SSRL are combining resources, creating a common User Administration Group
Managed by Cathy Knotts
Manages User training, User agreements, User metrics
LCLS supports one added User Administrator

17. LCLS Proposal Review Panel (PRP)
PRP members
Christina Back (San Diego) Janos Kirz (LBNL)
Magid Chergui (ETH Lausanne) Dwayne Miller (Toronto)
Lew Cocke (Kansas) Juerg Osterwalder (University of Zuerich)
Gianluca Gregori (Cambridge, UK) Metin Tolan (University of Dortmund)
Chi-Chang Kao (BNL) Kyoshi Ueda (Sendai)
Steve Kevan (Oregon) Edgar Weckert (DESY)
Two representatives of LCLS management without voting rights:
Jerry Hastings Jochen Schneider

18. LCLS User Program: Important dates
First proposal round close 9/1/ (AMO only)
2nd proposal round close 5/15/ (AMO, SXR)
3rd proposal round close ~10/1/2009 (AMO, SXR, XPP)

19. LCLS User Program: First experiments
First proposal round: 28 proposals from 16 countries (>200 scientists)
PRP met in December, gave highest rank to ~10 proposals
Most highly-ranked proposals will study effects of intense X-ray pulses on atoms or simple atomic clusters
Some highly-ranked proposals will try diffraction imaging of molecules or clusters

20. Summary
XFD is a new department at SLAC, will run LCLS X-ray experimental facilities
XFD and ASD are working together to operate LCLS
XFD will be the interface between LCLS and the world user community
XFD is staffing up and preparing a structure for safe, efficient operations