This graduate course is for PhD students and other researchers who wish to use X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL) in their research.
The course provides the student with an introduction to the basics of the world’s most brilliant X-ray — XFEL and detailed functional view of contemporary XFEL beamlines around the world.
This course features an innovation teaching method, using a Virtual Lab software to execute students’ own live experiments at European XFEL Hamburg.
Students have opportunities to look inside each technical component and make live adjustment to align X-ray laser beams and collect physical meaningful data for a realistic experiment. It will cover the techniques of femtosecond X-ray emission spectroscopy and pump-probe femtosecond X-ray diffractions.
The collected data will be analyzed in computer exercises and compared with real-world published results in the literature.
In addition, the course will take place in European XFEL facility in Hamburg, Germany, including an on-site visit and tour in experimental hutches.
Besides virtual-lab experiments, exercises, on-site visits, and lectures, students will also learn writing beamtime research proposals and get insight into the peer review process.
