March 31, 2025

LCLS MeV-UED Run 6 Call for Proposals

MeV-UED Call for Proposals for period: October 2025 – August 2026 (Run 6)
Submission Deadline: 16 May 2025 (4:00 PM Pacific Time)

LCLS is pleased to announce the proposal call for MeV-UED’s sixth external user experimental run, scheduled to begin in October 2025. In “Run 6”, LCLS MeV-UED will offer two specialized chambers for chemical science experiments. The first chamber is designed for gas-phase experiments, while the second chamber allows experiments using liquid-sheet jets. Both chambers offer a broad range of optical pumps at their interaction points.

Since 2014, the SLAC UED instrument has been developing robust methods in the pursuit of time-resolved measurements to control and understand structural dynamics and chemical dynamics in a variety of material and chemical systems.  Run 6 will leverage these successes and continue system-level improvements in machine performance and reliability.

Full details of the call for proposals can be found here:

https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/instruments/mev-ued/proposals


Virtual Town Hall: April 18th 2025 at 8:30am Pacific Daylight Time

A webcast virtual town hall meeting will be held to inform potential users about the developments at MeV-UED before the proposal deadline on May 16th 2025. MeV-UED staff will inform the community about the latest capabilities and be available for Q&A.

Watch Town Hall meeting recording

(Passcode: MeV-UED6)

TimeTopicSpeaker
8:30 AMIntroduction and call summaryAlex Reid
8:45 AMMeV-UED Instrument Updates &
Overview of  Electron Beam Capabilities
Joel England
9:15 AMRun 6 Gas-phase user experiment
capabilities
Yusong Liu
9:40 AMRun 6 Liquid-phase offeringMianzhen Mo & Ming-Fu Lin
9:55 AMLiquid phase jet system & liquid
recirculation system
Dan DePonte & Christina Hampton
10:15 AMLaser pump wavelengths available for
Run 6
Patrick Kramer
10:30 AM Detectors and data analysis for Run 6 Fuhao Ji
10:50 AMVirtual Q & A sessionGroup