SIBYLS - A SAXS and protein crystallography beamline at the ALS
The new Structurally Integrated BiologY for Life Sciences (SIBYLS) beamline at the Advanced Light Source will be dedicated to Macromolecular Crystallography (PX) and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS). SAXS will provide structural information of macromolecules in solutions and will complement high resolution PX studies on the same systems but in a crystalline state. The x-ray source is one of the 5 Tesla superbend dipoles recently installed at the ALS that allows for a hard x-ray program to be developed on the relatively low energy Advanced Light Source (ALS) ring (1.9 GeV). The beamline is equipped with fast interchangeable monochromator elements, consisting of either a pair of single Si(111) crystals for crystallography, or a pair of multilayers for the SAXS mode data collection (E/{Delta}E {approx} 1/110). Flux rates with Si(111) crystals for PX are measured as 2 x 10{sup 11} hv/sec/400 mA through a 100 {micro}m pinhole at 12.4 KeV. For SAXS the flux is up to 3 x 10{sup 13} photons/sec at 10 KeV with all apertures open when using the multilayer monochromator elements. The performance characteristics of this unique beamline will be described.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director. Office of Science. Basic Energy Sciences Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098; NIH Grant CA92584-04 (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 817640
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-53767; R&D Project: 458080; TRN: US0305222
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Eight International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation, San Francisco, CA (US), 08/25/2003--08/29/2003; Other Information: PBD: 22 Aug 2003
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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