LCLS Instruments
LCLS features seven specialized instrument hutches, each with a dedicated team of scientists and support staff, to conduct pioneering research and assist users with experiments. Each hutch is equipped with a suite of instruments to assist in gathering a wide range of data using various specialized techniques, from telltale signatures of electrons and ions to the intricate patterns left by crystallized samples struck by the X-ray laser.
Near Experimental Hall Hutches
Hutch 1.1 — TMO: Time-resolved AMO
The TMO instrument is situated on one of the newly installed soft X-ray lines at LCLS. It delivers intense ultra-short X-rays pulses from the FEL using state-of-the-art variable gap soft X-ray undulators. These ultra-intense, ultra-short pulses enable the TMO instrument to support many fields of AMO science ranging from strong-field physics, nonlinear dynamics, charged particle spectroscopies, and attosecond to few femtosecond science cases.
Hutch 2.2 — chemRIXS/qRIXS
The ChemRIXS instrument is a new endstation targeting studies of samples in solution using both tunable monochromatic soft x-rays and optical laser (OPA) pulses. It is designed with emphasis on highly time-resolved soft X-ray spectroscopy experiments on liquid samples. A range of rapid XAS and direct beam detection experiments are capable of being carried out.
Hutch 1.3 — XPP: X-ray Pump Probe
The XPP instrument predominantly uses a fast optical laser to generate transient states of matter, and the hard X-ray pulse from the LCLS to probe the structural dynamics initiated by the laser excitation.
Far Experimental Hall Hutches (Hard X-ray)
Hutch 4 — XCS: X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy
The XCS instrument observes dynamical changes of large groups of atoms in condensed matter systems over a wide range of time scales.
Hutch 4.5 — MFX: Macromolecular Femtosecond Crystallography
The MFX instrument primarily makes use of the ability for short pulses of X-rays to limit damage to samples during the exposure. This allows for example the study of metal-containing macromolecules which are particularly sensitive to radiation damage due to the high absorption of X-rays by the metal atoms.
Hutch 5 — CXI: Coherent X-ray Imaging
The CXI instrument takes advantage of the extremely bright, ultrashort LCLS pulses of hard X-rays to allow imaging of non-periodic nanoscale objects, including single or small clusters of biomolecules at or near atomic resolution.
Hutch 6 — MEC: Matter in Extreme Conditions
The MEC instrument observes matter at temperatures exceeding 10,000 Kelvin and at pressures 10 million times the earth's atmospheric pressure at sea-level, enabling unprecedented understanding of exotic states of matter.
