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Title: The advanced light source at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory---A high-brightness soft x-ray synchrotron-radiation facility

Conference · · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)
OSTI ID:7199150
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  1. Advanced Light Source, Accelerator and Fusion Research Division, Lawerence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

The Advanced Light Source, a third-generation national synchrotron-radiation facility now under construction at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, is scheduled to begin serving qualified users across a broad spectrum of research areas in the spring of 1993. Based on a low-emittance electron storage ring optimized to operate at 1.5 GeV, the ALS will have 10 long straight sections available for insertion devices (undulators and wigglers) and 24 high-quality bend-magnet ports. The short pulse width (30--50 ns) will be ideal for time-resolved measurements. Undulators will generate high-brightness soft x-ray and ultraviolet (XUV) radiation from below 10 eV to above 2 keV. Wigglers and bend magnets will extend the spectrum by generating high fluxes of hard x-rays to photon energies above 10 keV. The ALS will support an extensive research program in which XUV radiation is used to study matter in all its varied gaseous, liquid, and solid forms. The high brightness will open new areas of research in the materials sciences, such as spatially resolved spectroscopy (spectromicroscopy). Biological applications will include x-ray microscopy with element-specific sensitivity in the water window of the spectrum where water is much more transparent than protein. The ALS will be an excellent research tool for atomic physics and chemistry because the high flux will allow measurements to be made with tenuous gas-phase targets.

DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
7199150
Report Number(s):
CONF-900757-; CODEN: APCPC; TRN: 92-027291
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 215:1; Conference: X-90: 15th international conference on X-ray and inner-shell processes, Knoxville, TN (United States), 9-13 Jul 1990; ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English