Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1995
Publication Title
Review of Scientific Instruments
Volume
66
Issue
2
First page number:
1745
Last page number:
1747
Abstract
Beamline 9.3.1 at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a windowless beamline, covering the 1-6 keV photon-energy range, designed to achieve the goals of high energy resolution, high flux, and high brightness at the sample. When completed later this year, it will be the first ALS monochromatic hard-x-ray beamline, and its brightness will be an order-of-magnitude higher than presently available in this energy range. In addition, it will provide flux and resolution comparable to any other beamline now in operation. To achieve these goals, two technical improvements, relative to existing x-ray beamlines, were incorporated. First, a somewhat novel optical design for x rays, in which matched toroidal mirrors are positioned before and after the double-crystal monochromator, was adopted. This configuration allows for high resolution by passing a collimated beam through the monochromator, and for high brightness by focusing the ALS source on the sample with unit magnification. Second, a new “Cowan type” double-crystal monochromator based on the design used at NSLS beamline X-24A was developed. The measured mechanical precision of this new monochromator shows significant improvement over existing designs, without using positional feedback available with piezoelectric devices. Such precision is essential because of the high brightness of the radiation and the long distance (12 m) from the source (sample) to the collimating (focusing) mirror. This combination of features will provide a bright, high resolution, and stable x-ray beam for use in the x-ray spectroscopy program at the ALS.
Keywords
Monochromator; Nuclear physics — Instruments; Particle beams; Spectrum analysis—Instruments; Synchrotron radiation; X-ray spectroscopy
Disciplines
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | Biological and Chemical Physics | Chemistry | Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory
Language
English
Permissions
Copyright American Institute of Physics, used with permission
Repository Citation
Perera, R. C.,
Jones, G.,
Lindle, D. W.
(1995).
High-brightness Beamline for X-ray Spectroscopy at the Advanced Light Source.
Review of Scientific Instruments, 66(2),
1745-1747.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/chem_fac_articles/67
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