Agenda

A workshop on the interpretation of x-ray absorption (XAS), x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (X-MCD), x-ray photoemission (XPS) and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments.

Location: Trinity Conference Room (Building 53)

March 25: XAS, XPS and XMCD

09.00   Welcome and Introduction [Thomas Kroll]

09.15   Overview of the interpretation of XAS [Frank de Groot]

10.15   Coffee

11.00   Theory of the oxygen K edge XAS spectra [David Prendergast]

11.45   Theory of the metal 2p XAS and 2p XPS spectra [Frank de Groot]

(12.30)

14.00   Theory of the metal 2p XAS and 2p XPS spectra (2) [Frank de Groot]

14.45   X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism and sum-rules [Cinthia Piamonteze]

15.30   Coffee

16.00   Calculations of 2p XAS, 2p XPS and XMCD (hands-on)

            [Frank de Groot, Thomas Kroll, Cinthia Piamonteze]

March 26: RIXS 

09.00   Overview of the interpretation of RIXS [Frank de Groot]

09.30   Soft x-ray spectroscopy beamlines at SSRL [Jun-Sik Lee]

10.00   Soft x-ray spectroscopy beamlines at LCLS [Kristjan Kunnus]

10.30   Coffee

11.00   Hard x-ray RIXS [Thomas Kroll]

11.45   Soft X-ray XAS and RIXS beamlines in operation, commissioning and construction at the ALS [Per-Anders Glans]

(12.30)

14.00   Phonons, plasmons and magnons in RIXS [Brian Moritz]

14.45   Calculations of 1s2p, 1s3p and 2p3d RIXS (hands-on)

            [Frank de Groot, Thomas Kroll, Cinthia Piamonteze]

(* send us an email if you would like to do/discuss calculations on a specific topic/system/spectroscopy)

Software:

You can use both the CTM4XAS and CRISPY interface.      
The suggestion is to use CTM4XAS for windows and CRISPY for Apple & LINUX,

Download CTM4XAS: https://anorg.chem.uu.nl/CTM4XAS/

Download CRISPY & QUANTY: https://www.esrf.fr/computing/scientific/crispy/