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Title: An ALS handbook: A summary of the capabilities and characteristics of the advanced light source

Abstract

This booklet aims to provide the prospective user of the Advanced Light Source with a concise description of the radiation a researcher might expect at his or her experimental station. The focus is therefore on the characteristics of the light that emerges from insertion devices and bending magnets and on how components of the beam lines further alter the properties of the radiation. The few specifications and operating parameters of the ALS storage ring that are of interest are those that directly determine the radiation characteristics. Sections 4 through 5 are primarily devoted to summary presentations, by means of performance plots and tabular compilations, of radiation characteristics at the ALS--spectral brightness, flux, coherent power, resolution, etc.--assuming a representative set of three undulators and one wiggler and a corresponding set of four beam lines. As a complement to these performance summaries, Section 1 is a general introductory discussion of synchrotron radiation and the ALS, and Section 2 discusses the properties of the stored electron beam that affect the radiation. Section 3 then provides an introduction to the characteristics of synchrotron radiation from bending magnets, wigglers, and undulators. In addition, Section 5 briefly introduces the theory of diffraction-grating and crystal monochromators. Asmore » compared with previous editions of this booklet, the performance plots and tabular compilations of the ALS radiation characteristics are now based on conservative engineering designs rather than preliminary physics designs.« less

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6234080
Report Number(s):
LBL-PUB-643-Rev.2
ON: DE89011817; TRN: 89-012834
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCES; OPERATION; BEAM BENDING MAGNETS; BEAM EMITTANCE; BEAM TRANSPORT; DESIGN; DIFFRACTION; GRATINGS; MANUALS; ONDULATOR RADIATION; STORAGE RINGS; WIGGLER MAGNETS; BREMSSTRAHLUNG; COHERENT SCATTERING; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETS; EQUIPMENT; MAGNETS; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; 430100* - Particle Accelerators- Design, Development, & Operation; 430400 - Particle Accelerators- Storage Rings

Citation Formats

. An ALS handbook: A summary of the capabilities and characteristics of the advanced light source. United States: N. p., 1989. Web. doi:10.2172/6234080.
. An ALS handbook: A summary of the capabilities and characteristics of the advanced light source. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6234080
. 1989. "An ALS handbook: A summary of the capabilities and characteristics of the advanced light source". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6234080. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6234080.
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