Meeting Report: Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiometry

Abstract

As part of the 2006 NSLS/CFN Users' Meeting, an all-day workshop on the topic of Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Radiometry was held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on May 17 to address NSLS users with an interest in absolute photon rate measurements. For the purposes of this workshop, the VUV range was defined broadly as the range of photon energies requiring ring-contiguous vacuum (5–5000 eV). Also, both absolute (i.e. radiometry) and relative (e.g. reflectometry) instrumentation and results were discussed. The workshop included presenters from some of the world's most capable synchrotron-based radiometry facilities, including PTB at BESSY-2, ALS / CXRO, SURF-III at NIST, and both facility and Participating Research Team beamlines at NSLS. There were 8 speakers and roughly 45 total attendees. Speakers included Franz Weber (Livermore), Rob Vest (NIST), John Seely (NRL), Frank Scholze (PTB), Steve Hulbert (NSLS), Eric Gullikson (ALS), Tony Kuczewski (NSLS) and Jeff Keister (NSLS).