Newsletter
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CLS-News Vol. 2 No. 8 June 15, 2004
www.lightsource.ca University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Experimental Facilities update - first light in PGM beamline!
- Operations Schedule and Commissioning progress now on website
- Prime Minister Paul Martin visits CLS
- CLS engineering team wins award
- Notes from the UAC- Users’ Meeting November 18-21, 2004
- IUCr 2004- August 18-21- Registration Now Open!
- 4th Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science- ESRF
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1- Experimental facilities update- first light in PGM beamline!
(Contact: emil.hallin@usask.ca)
Frontends: All frontends for phase I facilities are installed in the storage ring.
Insertion devices: There are now two insertion devices active in the storage ring: the 45 mm for the SGM and the 185 mm for the PGM. Both have been operated to their minimum gap with no adverse effect on the storage ring, once minor orbit tweaks were made. Support structures for the next two devices (the 75 mm EPU and the 20 mm in-vacuum hybrid undulator) are in house, as are all the magnet blocks. The permanent magnets for the 20 mm have all been measured. The in-vacuum device will be built first, to be followed immediately by the EPU; this allows the bakeout of the in-vacuum device to be done while the EPU magnetic structure is being assembled and tested, saving about one month out of the total schedule. A prototype of the superconducting wiggler has been tested to 2 T peak field without quenching. The complete assembly will be ready for field testing in July, and a factory acceptance test will occur at the end of August.
IR Beamlines (Infrared): The Bruker instruments for both of these beamlines have been delivered and are operational. Training and familiarization sessions on these instruments are ongoing and feedback has been extremely positive. Various components and parts for these beamlines shall be delivered and installed between July and August. However, the optics will not be included in these deliveries- these have been delayed for another six months due to vendor supply difficulties.
VLS-PGM Beamline (Variable Line Spacing- Plane Grating Monochromator): See the CLS web site for commissioning results on our first operating beamline! The first monochromatic x-ray light has been observed at a diagnostic endstation on this beamline. Congratulations to the SGM/PGM scientific team (Ian Coulthard, Yongfeng Hu, Tom Regier and Lucia Zuin) and to all the CLS staff who have worked so diligently to make our synchrotron light source operational! To view a video of the first monochromatic SR at the CLS, observed at the diagnostic chamber on the VLS-PGM, please click here: http://www.lightsource.ca/media/monochromatic_light.php
SGM Beamline (Spherical Grating Monochromator): Two components are not yet installed: the water cooled entrance slit and the Scienta analyzer, which is still being used at the CSRF in Madison. The entrance slit has been delayed by a long string of vendor engineering problems. It is now expected sometime in July, and that would allow commissioning of the SGM to begin in the August run.
SM Beamline (Spectromicroscopy): The primary optical enclosure for this beamline has been measured for radiation safety when gas Bremsstrahlung from the storage ring is terminated inside the enclosure. This allows us to proceed with the installation of optical equipment in the POE and the rest of the beamline.
CMCF Beamline 1 (Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility): The hutches that will house the beamline equipment have been erected and are being painted and utilities are being installed, so that beamline components can be installed by the July visit mentioned below. CLS is observing a factory acceptance test of the monochromator. All of the optical components for the beamline are in house now, with a scheduled July visit by technical staff from ACCEL to test component performance
HXMA Beamline (Hard X-ray Microanalysis) : In factory inspection of the complete superconducting magnet assembly is scheduled to occur around July 10th 2004 in Novosibirsk. We tried unsuccessfully to arrange a January site visit, just so we could go someplace colder than Saskatoon in January! Seriously, the monochromator (made by Kohzu) is being tested this month and will be shipped to the CLS before the end of the month. The main beamline vendor (IDT) will ship the first instalment of optics before the end of June.
OSR Beamline (Optical Synchrotron Radiation): the following images were captured in the OSR beamline using the ICCD camera (Intensified charge-coupled device) and the Streak camera. The image on this link shows various electron bunches side-by-side displaying a length of 100 pico/seconds, consistent with design expectations: http://www.lightsource.ca/photos/events/OSR_beamile_image_May_04.jpg
Also, a single bunch seen head-on is viewable on: http://www.lightsource.ca/photos/events/bunch01.jpg
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2- Operations schedule & commissioning progress now on website
(Contact: les.dallin@lightsource.ca)
The operations schedule is now posted on our public website. The commissioning plans for the next few months are detailed there, as well as the commissioning results: http://www.lightsource.ca/machine/schedule.php
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3- Prime Minister Paul Martin visits CLS
(Contact: sandra.ribeiro@lightsource.ca)
On Monday May 31, Prime Minister Paul Martin toured the CLS, along with by Mrs. Martin and Finance Minister Ralph Goodale. Accompanied by CLS Executive Director Bill Thomlinson and President of the UofS Peter MacKinnon, the Prime Minister toured the facility and got a chance to see the initial set of beamlines up-close.
For images of the PM touring the facility please go to the CLS events webpage at: http://www.lightsource.ca/photos/events.php
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4- CLS engineering team wins award
(Contact: dan.lowe@lightsource.ca)
At the recent Annual Meeting of the Saskatoon Engineering Society the Engineer of the Year award was presented to the CLS design team. The Engineer of the Year award is presented each year to an individual or team in the Saskatoon Area for outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering. Congratulations to our colleagues in engineering for this recognition.
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5- Notes from the UAC- Users’ Meeting November 18-21, 2004
(Contact:aanderso@stfx.ca)
A reminder to the user community from the Chair of the Users’ Advisory Committee (UAC): Please visit the UAC pages on the CLS web site http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/ to keep informed on current events, carried motions, and UAC activities. As always, all users are encouraged to contact the UAC to ask questions or to voice their concerns regarding user issues.
Plan now to attend the 7th Annual Users’ Meeting and Associated Workshops to be held November 18-21, 2004, on the University of Saskatchewan campus. At the end of this year there will be four openings in the UAC committee. We are now accepting nominations for users to stand in the election which will take place in December 2004- we will be in particular need of industrial representatives.
Alan Anderson, Chair of the UAC
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6- IUCr 2004- August 18-21- Registration Now Open!
(Contact:john.tse@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
You are invited to present an oral or poster contribution at the 2004 International Union of Crystallography - High Pressure Commission Workshop to be held on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan, 18th-21st August, 2004.
This international workshop will focus on recent advances in high pressure sciences and techniques. The workshop will consist of a series of Keynote lectures highlighting the state-of-the-art of High Pressure Research and invited presentations covering New Materials and Chemistry, Mineral and Geophysics, Liquids, Single Crystals Metals and Alloys, Theory and Computation and the latest of techniques development.
We encourage young scientists and graduate students to attend this conference. A bursary will be available to support the travel of eligible attendees (Sponsored by IUCr, UofS, CLS, and CISR). Details of the programme and invited speakers can be found on http://www.lightsource.ca/iucr2004
John S. Tse (Chair), On behalf of the Organizing Committee
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7- 4th Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science- 23-25, August- ESRF, Grenoble
(Contact: srms-4@esrf.fr)
As the leading event in the field, SRMS-4 covers all materials science and engineering aspects employing synchrotron radiation and instrumentation. We invite contributions on materials aspects, industrial applications, and on future perspectives where new ideas, plans, and projects can be presented.
The conference website is: http://www.esrf.fr/Conferences/SRMS-4
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