Present Status of BL40B2 and BL40XU at SPring-8 (Beamlines for Small Angle X-ray Scattering)
- SPring-8/JASRI, Mikazuki, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198 (Japan)
BL40B2 and BL40XU were built at SPring-8 in 1999. They are now open for public users and many kinds of small angle x-ray scattering experiments are carried out using these beamlines. We report the present status of these two beamlines. Also some examples of experimental results that were obtained at these beamlines are shown. BL40B2 is for recording small-angle x-ray scattering from non-crystalline biological materials. The light source is a bending magnet and the white x-rays generated by are monochromatized using a double crystal monochromator and focused by a 1-m-long rhodium-coated bent-cylinder mirror. The photon flux is 1x1011 photons/sec at 12.4 keV. The tunable energy range is 7 keV {approx} 18 keV. As a detector, an imaging plate area detector (RIGAKU R-AXIS IV++) is installed. Two fixed-length vacuum paths allow camera lengths of 400 mm and 1000 mm. This beamline is suitable for static measurements with high accuracy and high resolution. The aim of BL40XU is to provide very high flux of x-rays for various experiments. On this concept, BL40XU was designed to use the fundamental undulator radiation as a quasi-monochromatic x-ray beam so that the use of the crystal monochromator was eliminated. The x-ray source of BL40XU is a helical undulator and its flux is estimated to be 1x10 and 15 photons/sec at 12.4 keV. The x-ray is focused horizontally and vertically by bending two water-cooled focusing mirrors. So far, various time-resolved diffraction and scattering experiments on biomaterials and polymers have been carried out.
- OSTI ID:
- 20652947
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 705, Issue 1; Conference: 8. international conference on synchrotron radiation instrumentation, San Francisco, CA (United States), 25-29 Aug 2003; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1757802; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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