title: High-precision x-ray FEL pulse arrival time measurements at SACLA by a THz streak camera with Xe clusters.
abstract: The accurate measurement of the arrival time of a hard X-ray free electron laser (FEL) pulse with respect to a laser is of utmost importance for pump-probe experiments proposed or carried out at FEL facilities around the world. This manuscript presents the latest device to meet this challenge, a THz streak camera using Xe gas clusters, capable of pulse arrival time measurements with an estimated accuracy of several femtoseconds. An experiment performed at SACLA demonstrates the performance of the device at photon energies between 5 and 10 keV with variable photon beam parameters.
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Juranić
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stepanov
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ischebeck
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schlott
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pradervand
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Patthey
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radović
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gorgisyan
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rivkin
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Hauri
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Monoszlai
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ivanov
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Peier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Togashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Owada
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yabashi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Abela
mesh_terms: D004583:Electrons; D007834:Lasers; D008027:Light; D010781:Photography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017785:Photons; D055053:Terahertz Radiation; D013997:Time Factors; D014965:X-Rays; D014978:Xenon / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014978:Xenon