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Title: The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: A high-brightness soft x-ray synchrotron-radiation facility

Abstract

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 20 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 physicsmore » and chemistry because the high flux will allow measurements to be made with tenuous gas-phase targets. 8 refs., 7 figs., 3 tabs.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/ER
OSTI Identifier:
6527336
Report Number(s):
LBL-29465; CONF-900757-6
ON: DE91004310; TRN: 90-037552
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 15. international conference on x-ray and inner-shell processes, Knoxville, TN (USA), 9-13 Jul 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCES; DESIGN; EXPERIMENT PLANNING; BEAM BENDING MAGNETS; LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY; STORAGE RINGS; WIGGLER MAGNETS; X-RAY SOURCES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETS; EQUIPMENT; MAGNETS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PLANNING; RADIATION SOURCES; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; X-RAY EQUIPMENT; 430100* - Particle Accelerators- Design, Development, & Operation

Citation Formats

Schlachter, A S, and Robinson, A L. The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: A high-brightness soft x-ray synchrotron-radiation facility. United States: N. p., 1990. Web.
Schlachter, A S, & Robinson, A L. The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: A high-brightness soft x-ray synchrotron-radiation facility. United States.
Schlachter, A S, and Robinson, A L. 1990. "The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: A high-brightness soft x-ray synchrotron-radiation facility". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6527336.
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title = {The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: A high-brightness soft x-ray synchrotron-radiation facility},
author = {Schlachter, A S and Robinson, A L},
abstractNote = {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 20 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. 8 refs., 7 figs., 3 tabs.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6527336}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990},
month = {Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990}
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