Commissioning the Linac Coherent Light Source injector by R. Akre, D. Dowell, P. Emma, J. Frisch, S. Gilevich, G. Hays, Ph. Hering, R. Iverson, C. Limborg-Deprey, H. Loos, A. Miahnahri, J. Schmerge, J. Turner, J. Welch, W. White, J. Wu

“…The Linac Coherent Light Source is a SASE x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) project presently under construction at SLAC [J. …”
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The DREAM Endstation at the Linac Coherent Light Source by Peter Walter, Micheal Holmes, Razib Obaid, Lope Amores, Xianchao Cheng, James P. Cryan, James M. Glownia, Xiang Li, Ming-Fu Lin, May Ling Ng, Joseph Robinson, Niranjan Shivaram, Jing Yin, David Fritz, Justin James, Jean-Charles Castagna, Timur Osipov

“…Here, we report on the design of a Dynamic Reaction Microscope (DREAM) endstation located at the second interaction point of the Time-Resolved Molecular and Optical (TMO) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) capable of following the photon–matter interactions by detecting ions and electrons in coincidence. …”
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Second and third harmonic measurements at the linac coherent light source by D. Ratner, A. Brachmann, F. J. Decker, Y. Ding, D. Dowell, P. Emma, A. Fisher, J. Frisch, S. Gilevich, Z. Huang, P. Hering, R. Iverson, J. Krzywinski, H. Loos, M. Messerschmidt, H. D. Nuhn, T. Smith, J. Turner, J. Welch, W. White, J. Wu

“…The linac coherent light source (LCLS) is a self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) free-electron laser (FEL) operating at fundamental photon energies from 0.5 to 10 keV. …”
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The Linac Coherent Light Source: Recent Developments and Future Plans by R. W. Schoenlein, S. Boutet, M. P. Minitti, A.M. Dunne

“…The development of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has launched a new era in X-ray science by providing ultrafast coherent X-ray pulses with a peak brightness that is approximately one billion times higher than previous X-ray sources. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) facility at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the world’s first hard X-ray FEL, has already demonstrated a tremendous scientific impact across broad areas of science. …”
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Robust CsBr/Cu photocathodes for the linac coherent light source by Juan R. Maldonado, Zhi Liu, D. H. Dowell, Robert E. Kirby, Yun Sun, Piero Pianetta, Fabian Pease

“…The linac coherent light source (LCLS), an x-ray free-electron laser project presently under construction at SLAC, uses a 2.856 GHz rf photocathode gun with a copper cathode for its electron source. …”
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Longitudinal dynamics of twin electron bunches in the Linac Coherent Light Source by Zhen Zhang, Yuantao Ding, Agostino Marinelli, Zhirong Huang

“…In this paper we analyze a twin-bunch technique in a high-energy linac, such as the Linac Coherent Light Source. This method allows the generation of two electron bunches with high peak current and independent control of time delay and energy separation. …”
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Commissioning of the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source II electron source by F. Zhou, C. Adolphsen, A. Benwell, G. Brown, D. H. Dowell, M. Dunning, S. Gilevich, K. Grouev, G. Huang, B. Jacobson, X. H. Liu, A. Miahnahri, F. Sannibale, J. Schmerge, T. Vecchione

“…For the Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) project at SLAC, a 1.3 GHz superconducting rf (SRF) linac is being constructed that will generate 4 GeV electron bunches at a high repetition rate to drive x-ray free electron lasers. …”
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The linac coherent light source single particle imaging road map by A. Aquila, A. Barty, C. Bostedt, S. Boutet, G. Carini, D. dePonte, P. Drell, S. Doniach, K. H. Downing, T. Earnest, H. Elmlund, V. Elser, M. Gühr, J. Hajdu, J. Hastings, S. P. Hau-Riege, Z. Huang, E. E. Lattman, F. R. N. C. Maia, S. Marchesini, A. Ourmazd, C. Pellegrini, R. Santra, I. Schlichting, C. Schroer, J. C. H. Spence, I. A. Vartanyants, S. Wakatsuki, W. I. Weis, G. J. Williams

“…Early experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) have led to rapid progress in the field and, so far, coherent diffractive images have been recorded from biological specimens, aerosols, and quantum systems with a few-tens-of-nanometers resolution. …”
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Seventh User Workshop on High-Power Lasers at the Linac Coherent Light Source by Gilliss Dyer, Cindy Bolme, Siegfried Glenzer

“…Members from the user community of the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) endstation of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and other scientists met with local scientists to discuss developments at LCLS and MEC and related facilities, including experimental results and future plans.…”
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Soft x-ray seeding studies for the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source II by E. Hemsing, G. Marcus, W. M. Fawley, R. W. Schoenlein, R. Coffee, G. Dakovski, J. Hastings, Z. Huang, D. Ratner, T. Raubenheimer, G. Penn

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Beam shaping to improve the free-electron laser performance at the Linac Coherent Light Source by Y. Ding, K. L. F. Bane, W. Colocho, F.-J. Decker, P. Emma, J. Frisch, M. W. Guetg, Z. Huang, R. Iverson, J. Krzywinski, H. Loos, A. Lutman, T. J. Maxwell, H.-D. Nuhn, D. Ratner, J. Turner, J. Welch, F. Zhou

“…A new operating mode has been developed for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) in which we shape the longitudinal phase space of the electron beam. …”
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Time-resolved imaging of the microbunching instability and energy spread at the Linac Coherent Light Source by D. Ratner, C. Behrens, Y. Ding, Z. Huang, A. Marinelli, T. Maxwell, F. Zhou

“…Past studies of MBI at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) relied on optical transition radiation to infer the existence of microbunching. …”
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Beam-based rf station fault identification at the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source by Ryan Humble, Finn H. O’Shea, William Colocho, Matt Gibbs, Helen Chaffee, Eric Darve, Daniel Ratner

“…Herein, we focus on a particular anomaly detection task for radio-frequency (rf) stations at the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The existing rf station diagnostics are bandwidth limited, resulting in slow, unreliable signals. …”
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The time-resolved atomic, molecular and optical science instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source by Peter Walter, Timur Osipov, Ming-Fu Lin, James Cryan, Taran Driver, Andrei Kamalov, Agostino Marinelli, Joe Robinson, Matthew H. Seaberg, Thomas J. A. Wolf, Jeff Aldrich, Nolan Brown, Elio G. Champenois, Xinxin Cheng, Daniele Cocco, Alan Conder, Ivan Curiel, Adam Egger, James M. Glownia, Philip Heimann, Michael Holmes, Tyler Johnson, Lance Lee, Xiang Li, Stefan Moeller, Daniel S. Morton, May Ling Ng, Kayla Ninh, Jordan T. O'Neal, Razib Obaid, Allen Pai, William Schlotter, Jackson Shepard, Niranjan Shivaram, Peter Stefan, Xiong Van, Anna Li Wang, Hengzi Wang, Jing Yin, Sameen Yunus, David Fritz, Justin James, Jean-Charles Castagna

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Beam-loss detection for the high-rate superconducting upgrade to the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source by Alan S. Fisher, Christine I. Clarke, Bryce T. Jacobson, Ruslan Kadyrov, Evan Rodriguez, Mario Santana Leitner, Leonid Sapozhnikov, James J. Welch

“…The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) x-ray free-electron laser is driven by the third kilometer of the 3-km SLAC linac, which accelerates electrons in normal-conducting copper cavities pulsed at 120 Hz. …”
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Soft x-ray self-seeding simulation methods and their application for the Linac Coherent Light Source by Svitozar Serkez, Jacek Krzywinski, Yuantao Ding, Zhirong Huang

“…We study the radiation propagation through a grating monochromator installed at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The monochromator design is based on a toroidal VLS grating working at a fixed incidence angle mounting without an entrance slit. …”
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Measurements of wake-induced electron beam deflection in a dechirper at the Linac Coherent Light Source by Johann Zemella, Karl Bane, Alan Fisher, Marc Guetg, Zhirong Huang, Richard Iverson, Patrick Krejcik, Alberto Lutman, Timothy Maxwell, Alexander Novokhatski, Gennady Stupakov, Zhen Zhang, Mark Harrison, Marcos Ruelas

“…The RadiaBeam/SLAC dechirper, a structure consisting of pairs of flat, metallic, corrugated plates, has been installed just upstream of the undulators in the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). As a dechirper, with the beam passing between the plates on axis, longitudinal wakefields are induced that can remove unwanted energy chirp in the beam. …”
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Electron beam energy chirp control with a rectangular corrugated structure at the Linac Coherent Light Source by Zhen Zhang, Karl Bane, Yuantao Ding, Zhirong Huang, Richard Iverson, Timothy Maxwell, Gennady Stupakov, Lanfa Wang

“…In this paper we study the wakefields generated by a beam passing between flat metallic plates with small corrugations, and then apply such a device as a passive dechirper for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) energy chirp control with a multi-GeV and femtosecond electron beam. …”
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Plasma cleaning of the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source II high energy verification cryomodule cavities by B. Giaccone, P. Berrutti, M. Martinello, S. Posen, A. Cravatta, A. Netepenko, T. Arkan, A. Grassellino, B. Hartsell, J. Kaluzny, A. Penhollow, D. Gonnella, M. Ross, J. Fuerst, G. Hays, J. T. Maniscalco, M. Doleans

“…We developed the technique for Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) cavities and we present in this paper the full development and application of plasma processing to the LCLS-II High Energy verification cryomodule (vCM). …”
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Measurements and modeling of coherent synchrotron radiation and its impact on the Linac Coherent Light Source electron beam by K. L. F. Bane, F.-J. Decker, Y. Ding, D. Dowell, P. Emma, J. Frisch, Z. Huang, R. Iverson, C. Limborg-Deprey, H. Loos, H.-D. Nuhn, D. Ratner, G. Stupakov, J. Turner, J. Welch, J. Wu

“…In order to reach the high peak current required for an x-ray free electron laser, two separate magnetic dipole chicanes are used in the Linac Coherent Light Source accelerator to compress the electron bunch length in stages. …”
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