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Newsletter=========================================================== CLS-News Vol. 2 No. 9 September 9, 2004 www.lightsource.ca University of Saskatchewan, Canada ====================================================================
*************************************************************************** 1.- Operating licence received. On July 14th the CLS received its operating licence from the CNSC, clearing the last regulatory hurdle before welcoming researchers. The first call for proposals for research at the CLS will go out this fall, with the first experiments expected to be underway by early 2005. For the full story please go to: http://www.lightsource.ca/media/gets_approval.php *************************************************************************** 2.- FIRST CALL FOR PROPOSALS! (Contact: clsuo@lightsource.ca) Canadian Light Source Inc. is pleased to announce its First Call for Proposals for experimental beam time. This is an opportunity to conduct some exploratory experiments as the beamline is being commissioned. This first call includes the: - High Resolution Spherical Grating Monochromator (SGM) (230 - 1940 eV) Please contact, Ian Coulthard (Ian.coulthard@lightsource.ca /Ph: 306-657-3526), or Yongfeng Hu (yongfeng.hu@lightsource.ca /Ph: 306-657-3722), to discuss details of your experiment(s) and to confirm that the beamlines are capable of performing your experiment at these early stages. TO APPLY FOR BEAMTIME PLEASE GO TO: https://user.lightsource.ca The suite of CLSI beamlines and the progress on each line can be viewed at http://www.lightsource.ca/experimental/ . For information on current machine operations please visit http://www.lightsource.ca/machine/schedule.php . *************************************************************************** 3.- Users' Meeting 2004 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Visit the meeting web site: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2004/ Registration is now open for the 7th Annual Users' Meeting & Associated Workshops, November 17-21, 2004 at the University of Saskatchewan. This meeting, organized by the Users' Advisory Committee of the Canadian Light Source, will be a great opportunity to learn about the progress of the Canadian Light Source, present your recent synchrotron work or ideas for future work, and meet fellow users. The following Workshops will also be held in association with the meeting: You are invited to submit posters about your recent or planned synchrotron work. The Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation will again offer a prize for the best synchrotron related poster presented by a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow. The prize will be $1000 to support travel by the winner to attend a related conference of their choice in the coming year, and present their work. Please register here: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2004/ For more information please contact: clsuo@lightsource.ca *************************************************************************** 4. – Commissioning Update (Contact: les.dallin@lightsource.ca) Since August 6th we have been operating under our new "operating" licence. At this time we are routinely circulating 25 to 40 mA, around the clock, with the building occupied. Beam lifetimes are over 4 hrs. For the main part the beam has been available for the commissioning of the PGM beamline. Monitoring of the beam position has improved and we now know the position of the beam at all the position monitors almost to the 1 micron (1x10-6 meter) level. This will enable us to keep beam motion at the beamline source points within our year 1 design goal. (That is, within 10% of the 350 x 50 micron beam size) *************************************************************************** 5.- Experimental facilities update (Contact: emil.hallin@lightsource.ca) Frontends: All frontends for phase I facilities are installed in the storage ring. Insertion devices: Operation of the 185 mm planar undulator for the VLS-PGM has brought two issues to light, and these are being investigated. One is that it is suspected (consistent with the latest beamline results) that the insertion device may be high relative to the storage ring median plane. An alignment audit will be done to check this. The second issue is that shaft encoders are suffering radiation damage (to the optical transfer "pipe") much too soon, compared to what we had thought. We are trying to find a solution that would make the smallest vertical aperture be somewhere that is not upstream from sensitive shaft encoders, not to mention the permanent magnets in insertion devices. IR Beamlines (Infrared): Delivery and installation of the non-optical components is proceeding with a few hiccups. It is hoped that optical installation can occur during the long shutdown this fall. VLS-PGM Beamline (Variable Line Spacing- Plane Grating Monochromator): The August run was a success as specific (and readily reparable) problems were identified in the motion of the M1 and M2 mirrors. In addition, an alignment audit is needed to confirm the exact positions of some optical components relative to the source (see comment in the insertion devices section above). Using all three gratings, flux that is within a factor of about 3 (at worst) from the modeled values has been achieved, demonstrating that the optical scheme of this beamline has been successfully implemented. Once the irritants associated with a vendor's design "features" are fixed, the beamline will also be easy to tune! SGM Beamline (Spherical Grating Monochromator): Two components are not yet installed: the water cooled entrance slit and the water cooled gratings. The entrance slit has been delayed by a long string of vendor engineering problems. Last e-news the vendor was expected to deliver the slit in July for the August run. Now it is expected in September in time for the October run. SM Beamline (Spectromicroscopy): It is expected that the beamline (minus its endstations, a jaw assembly and a slit assembly) will be installed on the floor by the end of this month. Most of the optical components on this beamline have been thoroughly tested using control software that will be part of the final beamline control system, and are ready for installation. The testing has identified that a jaw assembly and a slit assembly are unacceptable and they have been returned to the vendor. CMCF Beamline 1 (Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility): All components are in house and many have been tested in-situ. The detector support assembly will be available in September, and the endstation will be completely instrumented by about the end of October. First light to the endstation is anticipated in the November/December running period. HXMA Beamline (Hard X-ray Microanalysis): The main optical components are either here already or arriving soon, with the monochromator already here. The optical hutch will be available for occupancy by the end of Sept/04, and complete utility services for all the hutches will be completed in mid Oct/04. Monochromator installation and on-site tests will be completed in early Oct/04. Installation of other optical components will be started in Nov./04. This beamline is still on schedule for complete installation before the end of this year, with the exception of the expected delay for delivery of the superconducting wiggler by about one month. *************************************************************************** 6.- Users’ Meeting 2004- Vendor/Exhibition space still available (Contact: jordan.hamel@lightsource.ca) Space is selling fast for the exhibition area of the upcoming users’ meeting. For exhibition and sponsorship options please go to: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2004/register_exhibitor_sponsors.php *************************************************************************** 7.- Introducing new CLS staff/ Au revoir summer students! (Contact: nancy.fetch@lightsource.ca) CLS would like to welcome Dr. Dominique Appadoo, Science Associate, who will be working with Tim May on the Mid IR and Far IR beamline. Dominique was previously working at the University of Waterloo. Glenn Judkins is the newest member of the CAD team in Engineering and Technical Services. Glenn will be working as an Electrical Designer. Carl Jansen, who was formerly in this position, has transferred into the Controls and Instrumentation group as a Research Technologist. Sarah Churchman has joined the Industrial Liaison office in Business Development as Research Associate with Drs. Jeff Cutler and Tom Kotzer. Sarah is a familiar face at CLS, as she has been a summer student in addition to working part-time while finishing her degree in Biochemistry at the U of S. Erin Dolter joined the CLS in August as our new full-time Receptionist. This position was previously job-shared by Jordan Hamel and Carole Fontaine. Jordan has taken on a full-time position in the User Services Office and Carole has moved full-time into the position of Office Administrative Assistant. Matthew Dalzell has been hired for the newly created position of Communications Coordinator/Staff Writer effective September 1. Igor Doubenko joined us in August as a Visiting Scholar to assist Dr. Konstantine Kaznatcheev with the Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy beamline. Igor will be at the CLS until December 2004. Dr. Kim Tan recently relocated to the CLS from the Madison, Wisconsin, where he was working for the Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Synchrotron Radiation Center. Dr. Tan will be working with the Experimental Facilities Group as a Staff Scientist. Five summer students have completed their work term and are returning to school this fall. CLS would like to say thank you to Jolene Adair, Ryan Arsenault, Isobel Johnston, Dionisio Medrano and Dan Smart for their fantastic attitude and hard work in the last four months. *************************************************************************** 8.- “Public Science in Liberal Democracy: The Challenge to Science and Democracy”, Oct. 14-16, 2004 Please be advised of an upcoming international conference at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, entitled "Public Science in Liberal Democracy: The Challenge to Science and Democracy." The conference will include world experts on governing science and public policy. You might want to come and participate in this innovative event and be a part of our anticipated thought-provoking debate. The list of international speakers includes:
Who: The conference will include essays presented by major international scientists from academia, business and government as well as academics from several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. We anticipate 200 participants from local and global locations will contribute to the debate about how society can make better choices about complex science and technology. What: The conference will focus on three key questions: For more information please go to: http://www.publicscience.usask.ca ==================================================================== CLS E-News is an electronic newsletter designed to keep users informed about developments at the Canadian Light Source, the national synchrotron user facility located at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. Current and past issues of CLS E-News are available on the CLS web site: http://www.lightsource.ca/enews/archives.php To unsubscribe please go to http://www.lightsource.ca/enews/signup.php. We welcome suggestions for topics and content. =========================================================== Last modified: 2008-07-29 14:07:30 |
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