Newsletter
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CLS-News Vol. 3 No. 9 January 31, 2006
www.lightsource.ca University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Bill's Bulletin - 2005; a year of firsts
- CLS Signs Agreement with Australian Synchrotron
- Storage Ring News
- UAC Election Results: New Users' Advisory Committee Members
- Notes from the UAC: 2006 Annual User's Meeting, June 16-18
- 2005 was Record-Breaking Year for Tours
- Industrial Science Update
- First CLS Summer School: July 25- 28
- New staff & Now Hiring
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1. Bill’s Bulletin – 2005: A Year of Firsts
2005 was an extremely fruitful and exciting year for the CLS. The machine has met or exceeded our design goals, and we have had light in all seven Phase I beamlines. We began hosting friendly users who provided valuable assistance and expertise with beamline commissioning, with marquee experiments and the first published scientific papers expected soon.
In March, CLSI welcomed Dr. Tom Ellis as our new Director of Research. Tom’s vision and leadership have been instrumental in the development of our scientific program.
Last spring was also busy on other fronts. An important milestone was achieved for our industrial science group with the signing of a contract with Synodon Inc. of Edmonton to conduct research on our IR beamlines. This was the first agreement signed to conduct work solely on CLS facilities. The industrial science group was extremely active in 2005, conducting research on CLS beamlines as well as running analyses at NSLS, APS and Daresbury.
May was truly momentous, with the visit of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. The Royal Couple were impressed with the facility and news of their visit to Saskatoon reached over 2.2 million people from across Canada and as far away as Qatar.
A week after the Royal Visit, CLS history was made once again when Allen Pratt from Natural Resources Canada CANMET and his team became the first scheduled CLS users. Dr. Pratt has since been joined by over 70 other users from across Canada, and from as far away as Germany, to conduct research at our facility.
Throughout the summer and fall, the CLS has continued to turn on its programs as all new synchrotrons do. With the formal completion of the CLS Project in June, CLSI staff and management continue to make advances with an ambitious commissioning schedule, the completion of our strategic planning process, enhancing user support and growing the facility with the design and initial construction of Phase II beamlines and support for Phase III proposals.
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of everyone at the CLS and the support of the community, 2005 was indeed a remarkable year. I have no doubt that 2006 will be equally successful.
Bill Thomlinson
Executive Director
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2. CLS Signs Agreement with Australian Synchrotron
Contact: cls@lightsource.ca
CLSI has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne intended to promote collaborative opportunities between the two facilities. The agreement, announced by Victorian State Minister for Innovation John Brumby, was signed on December 7th.
CLSI Executive Director Bill Thomlinson, who visited Melbourne to attend a meeting of Australian synchrotron researchers, signed the agreement on behalf of CLSI. “I look forward to ongoing scientific exchange between our two facilities,” Thomlinson said. “There is a great deal of similarity between them, and ongoing scientific exchange will be good for both nations.”
Australian and Canadian scientists have been working together on a beamline at the CLS, targeting minerals industry applications, and plan to transfer the technology to Australia to drive possible development of a similar beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, which is currently under construction in Melbourne.
For the full story please go to: http://www.lightsource.ca/media/media_release_20051214.php
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3. Storage Ring News
Contact: les.dallin@lightsource.ca
Transverse Coupling: The vertical beam size is determined by the amount of transverse coupling. The coupling is caused by small alignment errors in the storage ring magnets and can be reduced (or increased) using an array of skew quadrupole magnets. Without the skew quadrupoles the coupling was measured to be about 0.7%. In November using a skew response measurement technique the coupling was reduced to about 0.5%. More recently the coupling was reduced to 0.3%. With this coupling the vertical beam size (1 sigma) in the straights is 12.5 microns.
The advantage of the skew response technique is the possibility of reducing the coupling locally at one location in the ring while keeping it relatively larger at other positions. In this way a small vertical size can be made at one location without impacting the beam lifetime too much. On January 24 the first local coupling corrections were made. This was verified by beam size measurements at the OSR and beam lifetime measurements.
A New Brighter Tune: The tunes for the storage ring are now νx=10.22 and νy =4.28. This is close to the low ßy values outlined in design note 5.2.69.2.Rev3. A small vertical tune shift has been introduced to reduce a coupling resonance that had been observed. Last November we were able to set the horizontal tune to βx=11.22, but decided not to use the higher tune at that time. We will revisit the higher horizontal tune in the next run. At this higher tune both the horizontal and vertical emittances are reduced to about 75% of the present values (see design note 8.2.69.1.Rev0). With these lower emittances the beam brightness in the undulator magnets will be increased by a factor of 1.75.
(Design notes are available on the public website at http://www.lightsource.ca/machine/techdocuments.php .)
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4. UAC Election Results: New Users' Advisory Committee Members
Contact: clsuo@lightsource.ca
On behalf of the Users' Advisory Committee I would like to congratulate Ernst Bergmann, David Klymyshyn, John Neville and Helen Nichols for their successful election to the 2006 committee. We look forward to working with you all in the coming years.
For more Information about the complete UAC membership and all our activities,
current events and carried motions please visit our website
at: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac
Michele Loewen,
Past UAC Chair
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5. Notes from the UAC - 2006 Annual User's Meeting, June 16-18
Contact: moewes@usask.ca
The 2006 Annual Users' Meeting website is now posted at http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2006/.
Online registration for the 2005 Annual User's Meeting will be opening in March 2006. Mark your calendar today and get working on that poster abstract! Sponsorship and Exhibitor opportunities are available - check the site for more information.
June 17th may still be a few months off, but planning for the 2006 Annual Users' Meeting is well underway. Visit the main meeting Webpage link above to see this years exciting line up of speakers and workshops.
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6. 2005 was Record-Breaking Year for Tours
Contact: outreach@lightsource.ca
2005 was a record-breaking year for our educational outreach tour program. Over 8900 people toured our facility, including approximately 1338 scientists and academics, 3697 students and educators, 3277 members of the public, and 347 industry representatives.
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7. Industrial Science Update
Contact: jeff.cutler@lightsource.ca
The industrial science program continues to grow in reputation and dimension, and is working with companies from across Canada with a number of new fee-for-service contracts and the renewal of a co-funded research position with Mosaic Inc.
Our industrial scientists have been actively involved in commissioning experimental facilities and collected our first data on the soft x-ray beamlines for an industrial client. Members of the industrial group are also busy organizing symposia at conferences, such as in environmental synchrotron science at last month’s Pacifichem, an international conference of chemical societies from the Pacific Rim. All of these endeavours are important in building the Canadian Light Source’s industrial capacity.
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8. First CLS Summer School: July 25- 28
Contact: Tracy.walker@lightsource.ca
CLS Educational Outreach is pleased to announce CLS’s first summer school taking place July 25-28. The school aims to provide upper-year undergraduate and graduate university students with synchrotron-specific knowledge and skills applicable to their research.
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9. New staff and now hiring
Contact: nancy.fetch@lightsource.ca
We would like to welcome the following new employees:
Shawn Painchaud and Ed Unrau started January 16th as Mechanical Technologists in the Engineering and Technical Services department. They will be working on various facility and beamline equipment for operations, commissioning, and phase II beamline installations. Shawn is an inter-provincial journeyman millwright joining us from Weyerhaeuser Pulp & Paper Mill and Ed joins us from Agra Foundations Limited with a heavy duty transport mechanics diploma.
Adam Janis joined the CLS in the middle of January as a term CAD designer. He will be working on general mechanical CAD for the facility and Phase II drawings. Adam has his CAD/CAM Engineering Technology Diploma and joins us from Cochrane Engineering Limited.
Amanda Schewaga joined the Business Development group in early January for an eight month co-operative education work term as a Marketing Assistant. Amanda is a fourth year student at the University of Regina working towards her Business and Administration Degree with a specialization in human resources and marketing.
CLS currently has a number of vacancies in the Experimental Facilities Division. Please visit http://www.lightsource.ca/careers
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