Speaker
Prof.
Miguel Aranda
(ALBA SYNCHROTRON)
Description
ALBA synchrotron light source (www.cells.es) is the largest Spanish research infrastructure that started full operation of its first seven beamlines on February 2013. I will divide the talk in three parts: i) a general description of the Experiments Division that it runs the user program including a brief overview of the five sections that ensure smooth operation and the building of the new beamlines; ii) an overview of the seven operating beamlines and some scientific results arising from their usage; and iii) a summary of the phase-II and III beamlines, including those under construction and planned.
I will start with a very brief description of the structure of the Experiments Division which is optimised for running our external user program: both academic and industrial usage. This structure, with five sections, also cares about the design and building of new beamlines (in close coordination with other divisions of ALBA) as well as managing the user office.
Secondly, I will briefly introduce our seven operating beamlines. I will give some technical details as well as scientific challenges that we have been able to tackle. The beamlines within the Chemistry & Material Science Section are: 1) high-resolution and high pressure powder diffraction (BL04-MSPD) which has two endstations, one devoted to very high resolution and very fast powder diffraction and another to microdiffraction running a high-pressure program; and 2) X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies (BL22-CLAESS). The beamlines within the Electronic & Magnetic Structure of Matter Section are: 3) photoemission spectroscopy (BL24-CIRCE) which has two endstations, one devoted to near ambient pressure photoemission (NAPP) and another to photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM); and 4) soft X-ray Magnetic Circular/Linear Dichroism Absorption and Scattering (BL29-BOREAS) which has two endstations, one devoted to absorption spectroscopy and another to scattering. The beamlines within the Life Science & Soft Condensed Matter Section are: 5) macromolecular crystallography (BL13-XALOC), 6) soft X-ray full-field cryo-tomography (BL09-MISTRAL); and 7) small angle and wide angel X-ray scattering (BL11-NCD). Some highlights about the produced science will be presented.
Thirdly, I will describe the three additional beamlines which are being currently built: 8) infrared micro-spectroscopy (BL01-MIRAS) that it will become operational in November 2016; 9) angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (BL20-LOREA) that it will become operational in December 2018; and 10) microfocus for macromolecular crystallography (BLxx-MICROFOCUS-MX) which it is expected to become operational in 2020. Finally some hints for the phase III beamlines and ways to collaborate with ALBA synchrotron will be given.
Author
Prof.
Miguel Aranda
(ALBA SYNCHROTRON)
