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BEAMLINE X3B

VIRTUAL TOUR


General Information

SCHEDULE
BEAMLINE OPERATING PROCEDURES
BEAMLINE SHUTDOWN PROCEDURES
RESEARCH PROGRAM: EXAFS, XANES and Metalloproteomics
RING: X-RAY
STATUS: Operational
TIME DEDICATED TO NSLS GENERAL USER PROGRAM: 50% of operations

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS:
Case Western Reserve University

LOCAL CONTACTS:
Sandeep Rekhi: (631) 344-6236; srekhi@bnl.gov

SPOKESPERSON:
Mark Chance: (216) 368-4406; mrc16@case.edu

 

CAPABILITIES

Energy Range
(keV)

Crystal Type

Bandwidth @ E=10 keV
(eV)

Flux @ E=10 keV, I=200mA
(photons / sec)

Size of Focus
(mm)

focused: 5 - 13.8 Si (111) 3 5 x 10^11

0.35 H x 0.2 V

flat:  4 - 11.4 Si (111) 3 5 x 10^11  
flat:  5.3 - 18.8 Si (220) 2 2 x 10^11  

3 mm vertical and 50 mm horizontal beam aperture in hutch. Horizontal width up to 100 mm possible.

OPTICAL and BEAMLINE CONFIGURATION

Primary Aperture
11.2 m from source.
Be Windows
front end:  0.010" thick; 8.6 m from source
exit window: 0.020" thick
Monochromator
Double flat crystal monochromator with fixed exit geometry; Bragg angle range is 10 degrees - 37 degrees; or flat Si(111) and Si(220) crystals operated side-by-side, each 100 mm wide; sagitally focusing Si(111) crystals (magnification 0.23-0.40); high precision rotary energy scale; operates in high vacuum; located 16.5 meters from the source.
Mirror
For harmonics rejection and vertical focusing (0.3 mm FWHM); flat cylindrically bent mirrors; independent choice of mirror angle and focal length; located 18.2 meters from the source; magnification 0.13-0.29.
 

EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS

Radiation hutch located 20 meters from the source; 4 meters long and approximately 3 meters wide
Canberra 13-element Germanium detector
liquid helium displex
computer controlled X-Y aperture and X-Y translation stage (75 lbs. load capacity)
three transmission ion chambers with electronics (amplifiers, V/F converters, scalers)
9 plate, 144 well high throughput metallomic stage

COMPUTER SYSTEM HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

Beamline control and data acquisition: 1 GHz P III computer running Windows XP; NSLS Data Acquisition Software with CAMAC interface; 3.5" floppy drive, 250MB Zip Drive, CD-RW disk drive, ethernet connection for FTP data transfer
Beamline data analysis:  1 GHz P III computer running Windows XP, 3.5" floppy drive, 250 MB Zip Drive, CD-RW disk drive, ethernet connection for FTP data transfer
Laser Jet 5MP (postcript) printer.

Updated: 23 May 2007.